How To LA: Exterior Prep May Save Your Home From Burning Down (And Other Headlines)

Having recently moved on my own for the first time — and coupled with a bit of worst-case scenario thinking — I thought about the potential scenarios that may strike and how I can prepare for them. These came to mind immediately: earthquakes, a bear getting into the apartment and a house fire.

How to prepare your home

And while I found a lot of helpful resources online, I have another one to add to my list. My colleague Jacob Margolis went to see a demonstration from Orange County Fire Authority, the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety and the California Department of Insurance to help prep the exterior of your home for a fire.

If your home catches on fire, odds are good that it’ll burn down. And considering that climate change and poor landscape management practices have raised the risk of destructive wildfires, it’s always worth considering taking steps to harden your home. So now I have something to add to my to-do list this weekend.

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Things To Do This Week

Cheech Marin, seen here at Art Los Angeles Contemporary in 2018, discusses his life, career and Chicano art during a virtual talk.

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Coachella may be over and we’re in pumpkin-spice everything season, but living in L.A. means a continuous music and art scene, with concerts from indie bands to art exhibits on any given day. And there’s events happening everywhere in L.A. and the rest of SoCal. Here’s some of our picks:

• CalEndow Live Presents Cheech Marin: Art, Comedy, and The Chicano Movement, Virtual: Cheech Marin joins CalEndow Live to share stories from his career as a counterculture comedian, writer/director, community advocate and famed Chicano art collector.
• The Other Art Fair: Los Angeles, Santa Monica: The fair showcases the works of 140 emerging and independent artists across various media, priced between $100 and $10,000.
• Chance The Rapper, Inglewood: Chance the Rapper celebrates the 10-year anniversary of his Billboard-charting mixtape Acid Rap with a show this week at the Kia Forum.

See the full list here. And here at LAist, we also host our own in-person events — see all the of upcoming events here.