Erik Chalhoub here, nervously eyeing Cal Fire’s recently updated Fire Hazard Severity Zones Map. My North County home sits in a pocket of bright red.
Mulch is keeping me, Pam Marino, awake at night. More specifically, the mulch spread around my house is what’s making me lose sleep.
In the wake of the 2016 Soberanes Fire and subsequent years of drought, several local communities in the wildland urban interface got to work …