#ValleyFire 🔥SHELTER IN PLACE per @CalFire if unable to evacuate bc of fire blocking road. #Fire in Carveacre Rd & Japutal Rd in #Alpine area. Call 911 if need emergency #evacuation assistance. Follow @SDSheriff @CALFIRESANDIEGO & @ClevelandNF (thread)
If you must SIP, put wet towels under doors, close all windows & fireplace damper, & if you have time, get on roof & cover vents. Before fire approaches, turn off gas at meter, fill trash cans/buckets/tub w/water, wet down roof and vegetation (thread...)
Turn on your house & solar lights. Breathe in 3, hold 2, out 3, repeat to remain calm. Bring flammables from yard-umbrellas, etc-inside house; only move things like cans of gas away from house if you can get them far from homes. Wear N95mask or use vacuumbag as filter for mask...
Remove flammable curtains, shades from windows, move flammable furniture to center of room, turn off pilot lights, shut off a/c & propane tank, move propane BBQ away from structures. Attach hoses to spigots. LOCATE PETS & keep them close. Prepare farm animals for transport...
Put ladder at house corner for #firefighters access. Wear protective clothing. Close doors inside house to prevent draft. Fill & ready any gas-powered water pumps. DISCONNECT automatic garage doors so can open by hand (close door). Release livestock/horses you cannot evacuate. 💚
Practice STOP, DROP, ROLL should your clothes catch on fire. Call 9-1-1. Download the @Zello app if you can (walkie-talkie, great for emergencies). Think of places in your neighborhood where there is a body of water (lake, pool, pond, river--wide creek as last resort) to flee to.
Download maps onto your phone in advance (cell service often goes OUT in a fire) and preserve cell phone battery
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