BUILDER tells you how you can improve your homes’ chances of surviving the next big storm. Plus: News of severe weather affecting builders from Maine to California.
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Category 2 storm leaves more than 2.5 million people without power in three states.
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Clean-up effort begins.
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Foreclosure protection to be offered to displaced families
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week called for homeowners to aid the state in preventing wildfires by following landscaping laws designed to keep such fires from spreading.
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Updates on Zones A, V, and Coastal A
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Builders and developers grapple with rising tide of regulations.
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Hallmark Communities is offering burned-out owners in greater San Diego three different ways they can rebuild their homes that were damaged or destroyed by wildfires in late October. The builder has reassembled the same six-person rebuild team that it used four years ago, the last time fires swept...
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As of late Monday home builders were still assessing the damage from the weekend fires in Malibu, Calif., that destroyed 53 homes and damaged another 34. The state Office of Emergency Services (OES) said the Malibu fire, which was caused by an undetermined human intervention, was 90 percent...
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When the June 2007 Angora Fire burned its way into the residential streets of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., firefighters were ready. The neighborhoods, unfortunately, were not.
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One bit of good news that came out of last week's fires in Southern California is that fire officials determined that at least five master planned communities in San Diego County's Rancho Santa Fe area survived because builders used a fire-protection program known as shelter-in-place...