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First review the following website from the CA State Fire Marshal’s Office Wild land Fire Prevention (Links to an external site.) and answer the following questions in at least 100 words.
1. What are the requirements of a “defensible space?”
2. Choose three bullet points of important requirements of the wildland building codes and describe why they are important.
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Requirements of defensible space
One should ensure that he or she clears all flammable materials such as vegetation, and other combustible materials that are 30 feet near any building or structure as the requirements of PRC4291 (a). Specimens such as trees and other vegetation that are scattered populated may be retained as long as they are pruned professionally and are in a situation that cant spread the fire to the nearest structures and buildings (Kurniawati, 2018).
Dead and other fuels such as wood which may spread fire should be disposed.
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