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San Rafael Fire Department: 415-485-3304. To schedule a Vegetation Management visit by the Fire Department: 415-721-2875.
 Fire Safe Marin DVD available for check out from WENA
Making Your Neighborhood Fire Safe
The San Rafael Fire Department is urgently requesting citizens be pro-active about vegetation management around their homes. In July 2007, an ordinance was passed which affects all properties located within the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI). MANY STREETS IN THE WEST END ARE ON THE WUI MAP. Visit www.cityofsanrafael.org/Government/Fire.htm to view the map and find each parcel number and address located in the WUI.
The following points emphasize some of the major clean-up standards that are required:
- Your defensible space is out 100 feet from your house in all directions.
- Cut grasses so they are no more than three inches high.
- Limb up trees to 10 feet above the ground or, for shorter trees, 1/3 the overall height of the tree.
- Trim trees 10 to 15 feet away from your chimney.
- Space trees and shrubs 10 to 15 feet apart and prune away dead or dying branches or plants.
- Remove ALL Junipers and Bamboo from within 15 feet of your house NOW.
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