Fighting fire starts 6 months prior to seeing any flame. Our WPM Firefighters work 40 hours a week at creating Fire Breaks which means eliminating hazardous, fire prone vegetation. It is this “fuel” or vegetation which allows flame fronts to move seamlessly across the landscape. We have an impressive array of heavy equipment and dedicated staff committed to creating clean and tasteful fire breaks. Our expert staff knows fire behavior very well. By predicting how fire might spread and threaten a community, we can take pro-active measures and anticipate the location of needed fire breaks. Typically these fire breaks are in canyons, on ridge tops and anywhere fire might make a “run” to communities and structures. Think of this as creating a “moat” around your community where fire has a very hard time penetrating.