Top 6 Ways California is Preparing for Wildfires

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10. I know that discomfort. Our first year I cut down a sapling. It was poison oak.

I'd used a portable sawzall (inline reciprocating saw with a long blade) and was covered in plant juice on one side of my body. Poison oak plant juice. Like you I also made a trip the ER. I found out that although I'd been immune before puberty, bodies change.

The next year I went after the junipers planted in 1969 by the second owner. They're like so-called "fatwood" kindling in a fire thanks to the high amounts of oil.

Strangely, all of the blackberry brambles died during the drought and haven't come back; they were last on my list.

It's wonderful to read & hear so many people doing what they can to help manage the danger; thank you!