Monrovia Fire Pushes 'Ready, Set, Go' Program

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The Monrovia Fire Department has become one of the latest departments to join the Ready, Set, Go! Program. The new program is designed to teach individuals who live in high risk wildfire areas how to best prepare themselves and their properties against wildfire threats.

Ready, Set Go! works collaboratively with our existing brush clearance outreach and provides the tools for our firefighters to educate individuals on preparedness, situational awareness when a fire starts, and evacuating early for the safety of your family and responding firefighters.

The simple steps of the program are:

• Ready – Take personal responsibility and prepare long before the threat of a wildfire so your home is ready in case of a fire. Create defensible space by clearing brush away from your home. Use fire-resistant landscaping and harden your home with fire-safe construction measures. Assemble emergency supplies and belongings in a safe spot. Make sure all residents residing within the home are on the same page, plan escape routes.
• Set – Act immediately. Pack your vehicle with your emergency items. Stay abreast of the latest news, both reported on news crews and your local fire department for updated information on the fire.
• Go – Leave early! Following your Action Plan makes you prepared at this step of the process. Firefighters are now able to best maneuver the wildfire ensuring you and your family’s safety.

The Ready, Set, Go! Program is the result of a nation-wide discussion on how to protect homes and lives in what the fire service calls the Wildland-Urban-Interface – where development meets natural vegetation – and the Ember Zone, an area where the wind driven embers fall-out from a wildfire that threaten property and lives.

It is a three step process that teaches homeowners to create their own Action Plan of getting their property wildfire prepped and ready long before a fire is upon them. This process significantly increases the safety of the homeowner and family and allows the firefighters to best do their job of extinguishing the fire, thus increasing the chance of saving homes and loved ones.

By joining the program, the Fire Department has become one of approximately 40 fire departments in California registered as and “RSG” department. The benefits of membership include full access to outreach tools, information resources, discussion forums and interaction with fellow departments that will assist in getting the message out to our residents.

Over the coming months, we will be rolling out the Ready, Set, Go! Program. Don’t let the first time you educate yourself on wildfire be in the aftermath. Join with us and be a part of the wildfire solution today.

Visit http://www.wildlandfirersg.org for information.