Wood Chipper Prgm

Teller County and local Fire Departments are helping residents and property owners create defensible space by providing free chipping of tree branches. If you clear woody vegetation from around your home and stack it at the edge of the roadway. Logs greater than 6 inches in diameter may be donated to local fire-wood programs.

 

Defensible space is an area around a home where trees and other flammable vegetation are cleared or reduced to slow the spread of wildfire toward a building. Defensible space creates a safe zone for fire fighters to carry out their work, and it reduces the chance that a structure fire will move to the surrounding forest. Every home in Teller County should have defensible space. Check with your local fire department to see if free defensible space assessments of your property are available in your area.

 

Westwood Lakes is in the NETCO fire protection district.  You must call (719) 687-1866 to get on the list for the following dates May 4-8/June 8-12/Sept 14 - 18/ Nov 2-6