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Staying Safe During The Holidays

Last night, a friend completed her favorite Christmas tradition -- stringing cranberries for the tree, drinking homemade hot chocolate and watching "Elf." Yes, now is the time for tree decorating, whi...

Preparing for Fire and Other Disasters

We woke up early Monday morning thinking we smelled smoke in our apartment. We were probably smelling the smoke from Sunday's Angel Island fire, but to be sure, we checked around the house. After we w...

Innovative, Fire-Resistant Oakland Hills Homes
SF Chronicle: 07.12.08

Saturday's Chronicle included Part Two of their wildfire-related articles. This time Eve Kushner and Laura Thomas's articles are on "several striking houses that show the gamut of architectural respo...

Wildfire: Oakland Hills, 17 Years Later
SF Chronicle: 07.09.08

Today's Chronicle tackles a subject that's actually been on our minds a lot lately. Wildfires. Eve Kushner writes about the wide variety of architectural styles of homes that have been rebuilt since...