Bring your own contractor. As the Los Angeles area stares down the long recovery process from recent wildfires that burned ...

Creating defensible space and using hard-to-ignite building materials improve a home’s odds of surviving a conflagration, ...

To do that, firefighting planes and helicopters have dropped a pink fire retardant that extinguishes ... electrical appliances and floor coverings to protect against fire. These can include ...

Decks are made from a flame-resistant Brazilian hardwood. RELATED: What is ‘home hardening’? Fire-resistant walls, roofs, windows and landscaping It includes a fire-suppression system to spray ...

Home hardening means using fire-resistant building materials and landscaping to protect buildings from heat, flames and a blast of embers during a firestorm. Here’s a brief overview of what that ...