Model Hardened Home in Oak Park

This home received a Wildfire Prepared Home Designation Certificate. When Janet Jackson moved to Oak Park from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1998, she unwittingly began the process of hardening her home against California’s destructive wildfires. Jackson’s father, John Kachuta, a contractor, convinced her to replace the vinyl gate on the side of the house to metal. […]

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Home Assessments

IS YOUR HOME FIRE SAFE? Find out with a FREE assessment. With wildfires seemingly a year-round reality in California, staving off devastation with home hardening strategies has become as common as earthquake preparedness. To help with fire preparedness, FREE, confidential home assessments are available through the Oak Park Fire Council and affiliated regional groups. Russell

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Home hardening could spare your home during wildfire

Photo: Mario Tama/Getty ImagesWhy do some homes survive wildfires? Like many Californians, I became familiar with the term “home hardening” last year, when insurance companies had finally come to grips with the cost of the 2018 Woolsey fire and were fleeing California or increasing insurance rates to such unaffordable levels that many homeowners chose to

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