Protect your home from summer fires | Business

Summer brings with it so many opportunities for family fun; sun, travel, backyard barbecues — a time to build wonderful memories.

But like the proverbial fly-in-the-ointment, there’s a dark side that none of us in Southern Oregon likes to think about. The dreaded wildfires.

They’re like a prowler in the night; you never know when they’ll strike, or what you’ll lose if they find you.

And so, like a home security system that protects your family from prowlers, you purchase fire insurance to protect your home from losses due to fires.

Recent years have made it clear that the threat of losing one’s home to a wildfire is not only relevant to those in isolated rural areas, but also in urban towns where we can have a false sense of security. Think of what devastation happened just last year on the streets of Phoenix and Talent Oregon. In fact, my family and I needed to evacuate our own home. We thankfully didn’t lose…

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