Ryan Shafik – All about Wildland Fires: Can a Wildland Fire Threaten Your Community?

In our Replay today, Bud, who has been around home improvementcontracting much of his life, talks about what’s wrong with the industrytoday, and what can be done to fix it. <br />It’s once again time for the Bad GuyBulletin with tips on scams to guard against like the recent flurry of Pay Palhoaxes. The scammer’s goal is to get you to call and volunteer yourinformation. Don’t do it. Even people without PayPal accounts are beinghounded by this scam. We also talk about AI, a technological “advance”bound to become a scammer’s dream. <br />Can a wildland fire threaten yourcommunity? The answer is “yes,” especially if you live in the far suburbs ora rural area. Given the right fuel and other conditions conducive to fire,your community could be confronted with a wildland fire, as was the caserecently in eastern Canada. A veteran volunteer firefighter is with us todayfor a short course on wildland fires, how they start, what sends them out ofcontrol, how communities and individual homeowners can mitigate thethreat they pose, and the damage they cause. If you live in an area with lotsof vegetation that becomes excessively parched, you need to hear this.