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Protecting your property from wildfire

Aug 20, 2018, 11:08 PM
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If a wildfire threatened your home, you might have to leave — and it’s not just those who live up in the scrub oak foothills who have to worry. How can you be more confident your property could survive a wildfire? KSL Newsradio’s Dan Bammes takes a look.

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