LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — With the Fourth of July approaching, Las Vegas valley residents are urged to remain on high of yard upkeep to scale back potential fireplace hazards.
For Jen Mujica, yard upkeep is a precedence. As a gardener, she’s cautious to choose up clippings and prune her vegetation earlier than they dry out, serving to stop them from changing into a fireplace hazard.
She is aware of precisely what to search for in relation to fire-safe landscaping.
“I’m watching to make sure no more branches are dying and all the rest of them are good,” Mujica stated. “They have leaves, they’re green. They look healthy. This is coming off, unfortunately, we’re losing some bark, but I’m going to work with some local arborists.”
Common Supervisor Brad Lisenby stated arborists at Moon Valley Nurseries are busy this time of 12 months.
“We also go out and service trees,” Lisenby stated. “We’ll do trimming, we’ll do removal.”
He recommends householders start tree trimming, noting that common maintenance could make an enormous distinction in defending each the yard and the house from potential fireplace hazard.
“Especially with the heat that’s coming up and how hot it can be,” Lisenby stated. “With 4th of July around the corner and with palm trees, you want to make sure you get those brown and dead fronds that are lower hanging so when fireworks get set up, they don’t get caught in the fronds.”
Creating defensible area can be a great way to maintain fires from spreading, which implies retaining areas clear and retaining useless vegetation away from one’s house.
“With monsoon season and high winds, you want to make sure you get all the foliage out of the middle and any cross branches and allow the wind to be able to go through the tree and not just push the tree over,” Lisenby stated.
