WEBVTT - How to Evacuate Your Home 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:04.960 All the media. 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:07.880 Hi everyone, and welcome to the podcast. I was going 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:09.560 to go for a really Robert Evans intro there, but 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:12.280 I bottled it. I own a coward and I couldn't 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:12.560 do it. 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:13.800 I hate all of you. 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:19.240 It's Margaret Kiljoy, everyone here to spread the good news. 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:20.640 I was trying to rap at Evans that. 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:22.959 Oh, okay, yeah, and it doesn't he only hate a 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:27.120 certain percentage of them, all right, Statistically speaking. 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:27.800 He likes some of you. 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:29.920 Yeah, And because I know some nice people list in 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:33.200 there Robert likes. Maybe it's you, maybe it's not. You'll 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:36.360 never know. Today we're not here to talk about who 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.680 Robert Evans likes. But we are here to talk about 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:43.240 what to do if your house is going to burn 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.120 down or you have to leave because they think it 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:48.920 might burn down. This is obviously a topic that is 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:53.080 front of mind for people in southern California currently, given 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:57.880 the massive wildfires that have engulfed whole neighborhoods of Los Angeles. 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.160 There are fires in Ventura and Start as well. Now 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.160 the whole of East County San Diego is under a 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:08.920 red flag warning. Fire conditions continue because climate change continues, 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:11.920 and we have decided as a society not to do 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:17.319 anything about that, and so this shit is going to 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.040 be the rest of our lives. 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:21.600 If you're on the East Coast or somewhere else and 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:23.960 you're like, oh, I'm fine, I'm not on the West Coast, 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.840 bad news for you. You're not fine. Slowly, more and 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:31.320 more the East Coast, including the northeast, is being seen 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.760 as a fire prone area, and we're seeing an increase 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:36.160 in fire out east as well. 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:41.040 Yeap, the United Kingdom as wildfires now a thing did 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:41.640 not exist. 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:43.440 Do you all even have wild over there? 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:49.000 Yeah? We have like land owned by the monarch fires, 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.640 we have like parks and protected land. We don't really have. 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.200 We have commons to a degree, but not not like 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.240 public land of the US does. Like when I was 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.640 a kid, we used to burn the stuff into draw fields. 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.400 Like that's how how a few fucks we gave about fires. 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:05.840 We just burn it in a plat back in and 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.680 air quality. I guess that is not a thing that 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:09.960 people engage in anymore. 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:11.200 That's probably for the best. 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:16.880 Fire it's coming for you. It's happening everywhere. Hooray, hooray. Yeah, 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.720 lucky you. The cleansing fire. I feel like there's a 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.720 John Betchaman poem I could go off with here, but 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.840 I'll spare you all right. So, if you are in 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:27.720 a place where you are very likely to have to 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.280 evacuate your home soonish for a fire, here are some 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:34.800 things that you may wish to consider doing. I've harvested 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.000 these from mutual a groups in LA and from the 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.320 Cowfire website, where they give you advice on what to 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.120 do if you're evacuating. The first thing that you want 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.120 to do is turn off your gas. For those of 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.960 you who are not familiar, this is a flammable substance, 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.640 and your gas pipe rupturing and then catching on fire 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.240 would be bad, would be sad. It's pretty easy to 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.320 do this. Normally, you should have a valve near the meter. 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.600 Some places we'll have what's called earth quake shut off 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:02.840 or an earthquake valve where you won't need a tool. 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.079 I'm not sure that. In fact, i'm pretty certain those 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.280 are not mandatory, even in California, because I've lived places 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.200 that don't have them. Then again, there are things that 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:12.520 are mandatory that landlords just aren't doing. I think we 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:13.000 all know that. 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.880 Yeah, or like grandfathered into or whatever. M hmm yeah. 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.680 Yeah, given that people outside California are listening and the 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:23.160 earthquakes are are fortunately not coming for us all just yet, 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.560 I would just suggest that you try and find where 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.040 your gas shut off is now. It's often where the 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.320 gas comes into the property, like there's a gas meter, 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.520 and normally you're going to need some kind of tool 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.640 to term that. What I've used normally is just like 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.680 an adjustable spanner or wrench. For those of you in 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:39.880 the United States. 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.240 The people at California that you're talking to. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:46.760 Yeah, yes, yeah, Hi, fellow Californians. You can turn that 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.920 valve so it turns parallel with the pipe. That's kind 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.880 of shut off the gas coming into your house. 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.480 Do you mean a perpendicular to the pipe. I'm curious. 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:57.200 I think parallel is shut off. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.840 Interesting with water, you turn it off by moving a perpendicular. 0:03:59.880 --> 0:04:03.680 I've never messed with a gas line. I've lived weird 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:04.720 and off grid instead. 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.560 Yeah, let me have a look. I'm checking now. 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:08.240 Yeah. 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.880 Sorry, it wants to be at ninety degrees to the pipe. Yeah, 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:12.440 so it should be in line with the pipe when 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.680 you start in ninety degrees to the pipe when you 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:15.600 turn it off, which you. 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:17.760 Can just kind of imagine as like when it's in line, 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:19.840 you can imagine like, oh, that's how the gas and 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.559 water can flow through, and then when it's to the side, 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:24.800 it's like, oh, now it's blocking it. That's how I yeah, 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:25.159 I remember. 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.640 That's much easier visually if you imagine like the hole 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.080 in the valve lining up with the handle. 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:30.320 Thing on there. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.320 Yeah, do you want to turn that off? I've seen 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.279 some suggestions that you want to turn water off. Generally, 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.840 the advice is not to turn your water off, and 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.520 to hook up your outdoor hoses to your outdoor taps 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.240 such that they can be used if they need to 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.599 be used. I have seen some suggestions to turn water 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:48.800 off because I guess people's pipes are bursting, which is 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:50.240 decreasing water pressure. 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.040 And it seems like that's probably a like city versus 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.359 rural or like city the city kind of divide. You 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.880 should listen to your local authorities around this kind of thing, right, 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.240 Like in the case of California, you can go to 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:06.320 CalFire right and there will be evacuation advice on the 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:07.320 CalFire website. 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.680 There might even be on your city website. Some of 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.440 it is useful. This is a useful thing if you 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.719 do need to turn off your water. Again, water shut 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.800 offs could be in a variety of places, so it 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:19.760 kind of depends. Especially if you're on a well, you're 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.080 probably row and if you're roll, you're probably going to 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:22.680 be leaving it on. 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.240 Yeah, you're probably turning off your water. Yeah, but if 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:26.880 you do need to do it's just a pipe going 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.160 into your basement that you turned it on. 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.680 You can sometimes be at the side of your house. 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:33.920 You might need to give this a little bit of 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.200 WD forty. Sometimes do a little little plastic box as well, 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.359 and the little plastic box has a little hole and 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.040 you kind of have to shove a screwdriver in that 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:42.120 hole and pop it open. 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.640 We're now talking about city water again, right, municipal water, Yes, yeah, 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:46.599 that's city water. Yeah. 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:48.400 Yeah, that's where if you have a water meat box 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.480 it could and the shut offs in there. Familiarize yourself 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.600 with that stuff now so that you're not doing it 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:57.359 in a panic later, And that's kind of where a 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.760 lot of what we're talking about today is. It's important. 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.600 It's if you do it now, you don't have to 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.880 dash about your house grabbing thinking. It's just important do 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:07.360 I need this? 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:08.920 Do I need that? Right? 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.920 Because like I've evacuated for wildfires living in California a 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.080 few times. I like to think I have it pretty 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.920 down now, but definitely the first time I was, you know, 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:22.599 freshly minted European migrant, it was not familiar with this stuff, 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.400 and it definitely just ran around grabbing things. 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:25.920 So it turned out to be the wrong thing. 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.480 It's like, cool, I've got three bicycles here, let me 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:31.680 let me go to the shelter. 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.680 And you can get something called a water key or 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.480 a silcock key. And I have a thing I have 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.919 not personally used it. I have a thing called an 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.120 eight way key. Sometimes they are called four way keys, 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.640 depends on how many little wrenches on them are on them. 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.560 And these are just cheap things that have like basically 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:53.120 all of the weird wrench style things that you would 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:57.240 never otherwise use, like all the weird like triangle things. 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:01.320 They can get you into like the boxes on a 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.960 subway car, and they can turn on and off water, 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.000 like I carry one in case you know, you're in 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.240 the apocalypse and you need to turn on the water 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.080 at a rest area, you know, that kind of thing. 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.040 I've first learned about this from squatters, so it would 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:14.560 just move into houses and then turn the water on. 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.200 And they they're built in specialized ways to try and 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.560 prevent squatter from doing exactly what I'm describing. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.000 Yeah, so you couldn't use your standard socket set or 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.400 what happens. So that's where you need these specialized keys. Yeah, 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:27.760 and they're not very expensive you can buy. 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.600 They're also not very high quality. This isn't the kind 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:31.760 of thing you're going to want to use over and 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.680 over again. They're usually cast and like they break, it's 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:38.160 like pot metal. Yeah exactly. Yeah, but they're are right 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:40.680 as far as I can tell. Yeah, and any you 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.640 hope you're not going to need to use them very much. 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.200 Other things that you should turn on or off, turn 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.720 off your air conditioning. No one's in the house anyway, 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.720 don't need it. I would consider leaving your exterior lights on. 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.000 This is just going to help firefight to see things 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.160 and see your house in the event that your house 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.040 is still there. You can close your windows and doors. 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:02.560 It's amazing how much difference closed doors even internally make 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.960 it in fire spread that There are plenty of videos 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.280 you can watch about this online, but like it's amazing 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.880 how much difference it makes having those closed. But you 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.840 don't want to lock your front door like you're going 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.200 to see a lot of stuff about looting. I will 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:17.960 tell you right now that the people who are looting 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.560 from wildfire survivors are the landlords who are charging one 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.320 hundred and fifty percent of the rent that they were 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.720 a month ago for people to find a flaceplace to live. Also, 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.920 if my house is about to burn down and you 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.360 go steal all my stuff, good have it? 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:35.240 Yeah yeah, lucky you like I hope you don't get burned, 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:40.280 like yeah, yeah, compared to if a firefighter needs to 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.480 enter that house to prevent it burning down. It takes 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:45.800 a meaningful amount of time to break down a door, yeah, 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.040 and you can save that time by leaving it open. 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.839 So yeah, that is something that I think you will 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.400 get the wrong impression of if you're watching too much 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.880 corporate news. If you can close metal shutters on your 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:01.760 windows but remove curtains, flammable things near windows generally not 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.400 a good idea, right, that makes sense. So if you've 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.839 got fabric curtains, I know they look nice, but take 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.600 them down. But you could just live like me and 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.360 never purchase curtains and just I don't have to have 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:18.160 the sun in your face. You know what is happening 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.720 to right now? Yeah? 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.600 Yeah, we're going to start a whole interior design thing. 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:26.560 And when I see James interior design where you hang 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:27.680 your curtains. 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.920 Yeah, James's effectively squatting in a house that he actually rents. 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.560 You should also move flammable items into the middle of 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:38.320 the room again, right, that's where the fire is not. 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:43.040 And then before you go, choose an outfit that covers 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.800 your legs and arms. Right, and you want to wear 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.400 some sturdy shoes as well, something that's comfortable, something you 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.640 could potentially sleep in and wear for a few days 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:53.720 and not be uncomfortable. 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:55.800 Shoes that you could walk in. Right. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.280 We saw a lot of people in la weren't able 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:00.400 to take their vehicles as far as they had expected 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.720 to be able to, and so having a pair of 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.520 shoes that you're comfortable in, your nice, comfy walking shoes 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.199 is definitely a useful thing to have something to think about. 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.280 I hope you're not listening to this dashing around your 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:15.400 house if you are, best of luck, Yeah, yeah, but 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.280 you know you can prepare all this stuff now for 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.920 the outside of your house. Flammable stuff that might catch 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:26.040 outside your house is best either bought inside inside your 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.160 shed if you have a shed or a garage or something, 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.640 or in a particularly California piece of advice, CalFire suggests 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:35.160 chucking your path to your furniture in the pool. So 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.120 that is the thing that you can do. That makes 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.480 some sense, it does. Have you seen the picture of 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.760 this lady in the nineties who put all her fine 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.280 china in her swimming pool before evacuating in a wildfire. 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:47.720 Oh that's amazing. 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.960 Yeah, it's very like of the time, Like it was 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:54.360 a time when people could afford swimming pools, and also 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.280 people had china that they cared about, which is something 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:57.880 that our generation generally does not. 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:00.920 Unless they inherited it from their parents, and in which 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:04.320 case they still also yeah right they have like one plate. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.160 Yeah yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Apparently it's a big issue 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.240 with people like inheriting china and not want to get 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:10.680 in and just dumping on good wiels. 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:12.079 Yeah I believe that. 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.760 Yeah, I can see that. So, yeah, you can put 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:16.320 stuff in your pool if you don't want to burn. 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.120 If it is possible for you to do that you 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.240 have something you mentioned Margaret about you your fence right 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:22.960 living in a more rural setting. 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.040 Yeah, can I actually just kind of like really quickly 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.920 run through some if you fire protecting your house. There's 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.000 two things you're gonna do. One is the oh, I'm 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.360 going to run away now version, and then there's the 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.760 ahead of time version. The really quick basic version of 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.000 the ahead of time is that, and this is more 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:43.120 applicable rurally. But you want to have a defensible space. 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.520 You know, everyone's going to give you a different number, 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.280 but like one hundred feet from your house. You don't 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:51.719 want densely packed trees, especially conifers, and you're gonna want 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.679 you know, the one tree is okay as long as 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:55.640 it's a little bit further from the other. You're gonna 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.520 want to clear out yard debris, even though leaving leaves 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:00.480 on the ground is overall good, kind of want to 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:02.240 create this space where there's not a lot of leaf 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.480 litter and things like that directly under your house so 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.800 that the eaves don't catch. You want to make sure 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.040 that you don't keep a lot of flammable stuff there. 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:12.640 And if like if I was fleeing my house in 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.199 a hurry, I would be pulling all the stuff away 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.320 from under the eaves that I should have pulled away 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.840 from under the eaves months ago. If I were to 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.240 design my house better, there would be a basically a 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.760 three foot like gravel line around the edge of my 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:29.199 house right of landscaping. Yeah, But the other things that 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:30.480 you're going to want to do is you're going to 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.960 want to look for how embers can get in through 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:36.000 the vents and stuff like in your roof area or 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.000 under wherever. And you're gonna want to basically make sure 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.680 and it might already have that, but you want to 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.679 make sure that there's tighter than chicken wire. I think 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:48.000 it's I think you want quarter inch mesh covering those things. 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:52.360 Yeah, like construction netting. Yeah, well metal, but yeah, it's 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.360 metals the name of it. Oh okay, it's what they 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.240 put into concrete. I think I use it to build 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.800 chicken Oh yeah, runs for some reasons. Well, yeah, because 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:05.440 raccoon hans can't get through it, and raccoons they're bastards 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:06.480 as it turns out. 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:10.040 Yeah, that makes sense. If your porch is wooden, you 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.720 have a porch, you don't want fire to get underneath it, 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.000 and so you can keep your wooden porch, but you 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:18.280 want to screen off underneath of it to keep flaming 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.040 debris from going under there. And then if you have 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:26.040 a wooden fence, consider having the first ten feet or 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.240 so of the fence the brick or something like that. 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.640 I can't afford this, but imagine you can. Then you 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.120 would want the first chunk of it to be that way. 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.120 If you have gates, you open them. The deal with 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.480 fences and everything is that you don't want like a 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:42.560 wick that brings fire to your house. So if the 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.200 forest around you is burning, you don't want it to 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.120 catch your fence and have that go right up to 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.040 under the eaves, catch the eaves on fire. And now 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.040 I you have a structure fire. So what you're gonna 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.000 do is you open the gates if you're leaving. And then, 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.680 for example, my plan, because I have a wooden fence 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:58.720 that goes all the way up to my house, is 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.480 that if I have more than like five minutes to 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.640 flee a fire, by a half an hour to flee 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.240 a fire, I am taking the chainsaw and I am 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.839 cutting down about ten feet of that wooden fence before 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.840 I leave, And that should dramatically increase the chances that 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.719 my house will survive a fire. Yeah, smart move. And 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.600 then another thing with a pool thing, And I think 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.760 I've read about, but I've never there's no version of 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.280 my life where I'm ever gonna have a pool if 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.560 you live in a fire prone area. They actually make 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.280 pumps that are designed to pump your pool water into 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.960 a fire hose, and they have saved a lot of 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.600 rural areas and probably city areas too by having that 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:40.560 accessible to firefighters. Immediately, your pool can become a resource 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:42.240 for the people who are coming in to try and 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:43.880 keep your house intact. 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.640 Yeah, amusingly, we use one of those. When I was 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.720 a kid, we had a whole wow like to get out, 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.240 and one day she got out. We all went looking 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.360 for of course, there were some wealthy people who like well, 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:56.960 they didn't live in the village that we lived in. 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.720 They owned it because Britain has never moved on from 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:03.240 this Ugal era, and they had a pool and that 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.480 that was where our horse was. And so the fire 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.280 brigade came and they used one of those things, just 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:10.680 pumped out the water and just like host down the 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:14.640 surrounding garden. And then we came with the tractor and 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.920 we put some different strawbeles of different sizes, made a 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:21.880 set of stairs and got her out. 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.000 That's the least relatable story I've ever heard about England. 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:31.560 It's in yeah, just like a rural people living the dream. Yeah, 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.440 she was a good horse, misty. Yeah, we had a 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.240 lot of horses that, like, we had access to land 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:39.480 and not a great deal of finances, so we inherited 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.520 problematic horses. I think for people who had like who 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:43.640 had the means to purchase. 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:47.360 That is relatable to the Americans. Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah. 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.560 Yeah, any people find themselves in this situation, I'm sure. 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.240 Yeah. Horse poor is a whole thing. Yeah it is. 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.920 Yeah, Yeah, it's it's the rich people who buy fancy 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:56.880 horses and then like find the horse not to their 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:00.280 liking and can afford to discard a living thing spent 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:01.520 more than a car is worth on. 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:03.920 Well and also, I mean, horse poor is you have 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:05.960 a horse, but you don't have any money, and you're like, 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:08.920 you're partly poor because you have the horse. Because horses 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:12.960 are incredibly expensive to ye maintain, Yes, they are. Vets 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:13.480 cost a lot. 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:18.520 Yeah anyway, so yeah, make sure not quite a horse relation. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.600 But if you are more of a horseless carriage transport person. 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.400 If you are, this is a very American thing. In 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.400 possession of an electric garage door opener, it is a 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.680 good idea to work out how to open your garage 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:32.920 without that. Yeah, because you don't want to be in 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.360 a situation where you can't use your vehicle because you 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:37.320 can't open your garage, or you don't want to be 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:40.280 dashing around going where's the bloody cord? Not the time, Yeah, 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:41.720 so work out how to do it now. Also, your 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.160 front gate. Hopefully you don't live in a gated community. 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.240 It's not the way to live. But if you do, 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.560 for whatever reason, you know, know how to open the gates. 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:51.400 Or if you have an electric front gates, you're drive 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.120 I suppose know how to open that, Margaret. Now will 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:55.640 be a good time for us to pause for ads. 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:57.920 I wonder if we will get an advert for electric 0:16:57.960 --> 0:16:59.120 garage doors. 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.560 Or electric horse. Oh yeah, maybe do they dream of 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:03.240 electra care. 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:16.160 We'll find out in its advertising break. All right, we 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:19.760 are back, and we're continuing on the theme of animals 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:20.600 because they are. 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:21.480 Our little friends. 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:26.640 Yeah, So if you have animals inside your house, pets 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.159 We have farm animals inside my house growing up, so 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:32.359 I guess it's not exclusive to pets. Used to bring 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.240 the lambs in when it was cold, little often lambs. Again, 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:36.640 this is turning into like James story. 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.400 That's okay, it's cute stories. 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.080 People who are in possession of a range, like like 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.480 a big cooking if you have a very old house 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.119 in the UK, or again if you're rich, you have 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.280 these like coal burning or oil burning ovens, so they 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:52.320 stay at his temperature, and they have a number of doors. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:54.600 The coldest one you can put a lamb in there 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.880 in the winter time and you can keep it warm 0:17:57.920 --> 0:17:58.400 that way. 0:17:58.720 --> 0:17:59.679 Like in a live one. 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.159 Yeah yeah, yeah, well I mean any of them. You 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.040 can put a dead one in if you felt the knee. 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.280 If you look at you're saying okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.240