🏘️ In Kelseyville, California, residents are enhancing their homes to reduce wildfire risks through improvements like new gutters, gravel barriers, and wire mesh over attic openings. These measures aim to prevent homes from igniting from glowing embers carried by the wind.

In the last decade, 70% of Lake County has experienced wildfire damage, prompting local officials to launch initiatives aimed at reducing fire risks and improving home insurability.

💸 Rising insurance premiums and an increasing number of policy cancellations, driven by disaster-related costs, have outpaced trends in many areas nationwide. Homeowners can receive discounts of 5-10% on their insurance premiums by taking steps to enhance fire resistance; however, these community efforts often go unnoticed by insurance providers.

To address these issues, Lake County, California, is implementing home-retrofitting programs through the California Wildfire Mitigation Program, established in 2019. The Lake County Home Hardening program, funded by the state and FEMA, specifically targets the Kelseyville neighborhood to improve fire resilience.

🏡 This is important because individual homes can remain vulnerable if neighboring properties do not take similar precautions. So far, over 30 homes have been retrofitted, with a goal of reaching 350.

This initiative is part of broader efforts to reduce wildfire risks, which include improving evacuation routes and clearing flammable vegetation around communities. As extreme wildfires become more frequent, residents are faced with rising insurance premiums or loss of coverage, often leading them to rely on the state-run FAIR plan.

📈 Despite these measures, California`s insurance commissioner has approved price increases for insurers while allowing more policies to be sold in wildfire-prone areas.

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💉 Vaccines = protection for your pet and community!

Vaccines help protect more than just one pet, they help protect entire communities. When pets are vaccinated appropriately, we reduce the spread of preventable diseases and keep animals healthier for longer.

🐶 Prevention is the best medicine, but it’s not about doing too much or too little. Following core vaccines and adding lifestyle vaccines based on your pet’s environment creates a balanced approach to care.

The goal is simple: protect pets the right way. Working with a veterinarian ensures your pet gets the protection they need without unnecessary risk.

🧡 Community Animal CARE (CAC) includes sharing information so we can prevent, treat at home and know when to call a Vet. Sharing is CARING.

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🤝🏽 In the struggle to save animal lives and reduce shelter overcrowding, there should be no “us vs. them.” Community Breeders, low-income pet parents, shelter workers, and rescue volunteers are all part of the same community – one that wants to see animals thrive.

We will only succeed through shared solutions grounded in equity and empathy.

💔 A moratorium on backyard breeding (a puppy moratorium), imposed without community input or support, threatens to frame one segment of the public as the enemy. It may be born of frustration, but it risks worsening the very problems we need to solve.

By contrast, an approach that prioritizes listening, education, support, and collaboration treats that same segment as part of the solution.

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