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Back to Basics: 10 Ways to Prepare Your Facilities for Wildfires

By Corey Sipe, Associate Editor Jul 13, 2022 Back to Basics

Updated: Jul 13, 2022

Back to Basics is an article series that highlights important, but possibly overlooked, information facilities management professionals should know. With summer in full swing, along with rising temperatures and increased dry vegetation, facilities management professionals should be reminded that this year’s wildfire season has already begun—and it’s becoming a larger problem than in the past. […]

Wildfire hazard sign with wildfire in background

Wildfire Preparation Tips for Your Facility

By Christopher Douyard Oct 30, 2019 Fire Safety

Updated: Oct 30, 2019

Wildfires can happen at any time, though changes in land use combined with the steady and continuing rise of global temperatures over the past decades have helped create the perfect environmental conditions for them to thrive. To compound the problem, more and more people are living and working in communities where the risks posed by […]