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Your home is far safer if your next-door neighbors’ houses aren’t burning down and sending fiery debris and showers of embers into the air.

The home was forced to quickly evacuate the evening of Jan. 7, amid raining embers and approaching flames.

Pascoe said in the past “homeless fires” were put out and would later smoke up again, and the Fire Department would be back to extinguish the embers.

Zone Zero, within 5 feet, is supposed to be “ember-resistant” — essentially meaning that there cannot be anything that might ignite should embers land within it.

As a standard precaution, the hoses had been left there in case hidden embers sparked a flare-up.