Surviving Wildfire: Get Prepared, Stay Alive, Rebuild Your Life (A Handbook for Homeowners)

by Linda Masterson

Overview

What you do long before a wildfire strikes can help save your home. What you do during a wildfire can help save your life. And if you do lose your home, being prepared for the worst will make it easier to put your life back together. Author and researcher Linda Masterson knows what it's like to flee a wall of flames in the middle of night, with just minutes to escape with her life and very little else. Her home in northern Colorado burned to the ground in the Crystal Fire in 2011. Now she's sifted through information, resources and expert advice from across the country to put together a practical handbook for homeowners who want to be better prepared if disaster strikes.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016420370
Publisher:	PixyJack Press, Inc.
Publication date:	06/14/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Award-winning author and researcher Linda Masterson tackles a subject she knows all too well in Surviving Wildfire: Get Prepared, Stay Alive, Rebuild Your Life (A Handbook for Homeowners). In 2011, her home and 72-acre tree farm burned to the ground in a Colorado wildfire, leaving her with little but her laptop, a fierce determination to get back on her feet and get on with her life, and a commitment to helping other homeowners be better prepared.

Masterson has always specialized in turning the complex into the comprehensible. In her job as director of Strategic Planning for Ketchum Communications she provided insight and direction to clients ranging from Procter & Gamble to Campbell Soup. As an award-winning author, her work has appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Log Homes Illustrated, Countryside, New Pioneer, Animal Kingdom and many more. Her handbook, Living with Bears: A Practical Guide to Bear Country, has become the book of choice for bear professionals and homeowners alike.

Linda and her husband Cory Phillips now live in a refurbished log home north of Fort Collins and are hard at work replanting their tree farm.

Editorial Reviews

I will definitely recommend Surviving Wildfire to homeowners and insurance professionals; it is a great, comprehensive resource! Masterson explains everything in understandable, objective language that is anchored in her personal experience.

Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association - Carole Walker

...Surviving Wildfire is worthy of the highest recommendation, especially for anyone who lives in or near fire-prone lands; reading it could literally save lives.

Small Press Bookwatch - James Cox

"The County staff reviewed Surviving Wildfire and everyone agreed: this is a great, comprehensive resource. It should be mandatory reading for anyone living in the WUI. I know I could've benefited greatly by this book in my role as Fire Recovery Manager. I will certainly urge homeowners to read it and get prepared."

Fire Recovery Manager, Boulder County, CO - Garry Sanfacon

A very compelling read and extremely informative. The combination of the author's real-life experience and her diligent research makes this a very helpful handbook for people living with the risk of wildfire.

Firewise Communities Program - Michelle Steinberg