Fire Prevention
Authored By: J. Barker
Two main strategies for fire prevention are 1) fire education and 2) managing development in the wildland urban interface.
The prevention of unwanted fire in the wildland urban intermix is achievable through risk assessment, risk reduction, and education.
The purpose of fire prevention is to decrease the possibility that unwanted fires will damage human health, property, and the environment. Federal and state agencies, inter-agency programs, and non-governmental organizations have educational programs whose purpose is to provide appropriate information to communities and homeowners on ways to prevent fire.
Encyclopedia ID: p283
