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Moraga fireplace crews reap the benefits of unusually dry month

By Miles Cooper
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January 14, 2025
Moraga fireplace crews reap the benefits of unusually dry month
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Moraga fireplace crews reap the benefits of unusually dry month

MORAGA, Calif. (KRON) — As the fireplace continues to burn in Los Angeles, fireplace crews within the East Bay are taking steps to cut back the chance a wildfire would possibly carry to the realm.

Firefighters with the Moraga-Orinda Fireplace District are making the most of an unusually dry January to burn piles of trimmings reduce down final spring from oak bushes that dot the hillside behind St. Mary’s Faculty.

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Dennis Rein with the Moraga Orinda Fireplace Safety District says prescribed burns like these are occurring year-round, climate allowing, in hopes of making a hearth break or moat across the communities of Moraga, Orinda and Lafayette.

“There’s a community up in Bollinger Canyon that would be at risk from a fire that started here on a west or north wind day, that could blow embers back up into the canyon, where we really couldn’t get to them easily,” Rein mentioned.

“Fire behavior in the wildland is really has three influencing factors: fuel, weather, and topography,” Rein continued. “We can’t do anything about the topography. The weather’s got a mind of its own, as we’re seeing about what’s going on down south. So the only thing that we can really control is the fuels, and so what we’re trying to do is reduce those fuels before we get a weather event or a fire starts at the toe of a steep slope and creates a wildfire.”

However clearing brush or different fuels isn’t just the work of firefighters.

The hearth district reminds folks that preserving properties fireplace protected can also be the accountability of householders — ought to climate situations permit clearing brush is one thing to be attended to year-round.

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That’s one thing Moraga home-owner Steve Hoyt is effectively conscious of.

“I grew up in Southern California,” Hoyt mentioned. “I used to work in Pacific Palisades, and I lived in the Pasadena area, so I know exactly their terrain, and there are some striking similarities here.”

Hoyt leads the Campolindo Firewise neighborhood, a gaggle of 400 properties the place residents encourage one another to cut back fireplace danger round their properties.

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“Residents have been trained by the fire department to do home assessments,” Hoyt mentioned. “Typically, this time of year we don’t get any requests for home assessments, we’ve had eight. This week, since the LA disaster… and I think people do realize that what happened there could happen here.”

Hoyt says with residents working hand in hand with the fireplace district the hope is to cut back the chance ought to a hearth escape within the space.

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