EP #211 STEP INTO THE LIGHT with PATTI SHENE

Lisa Hatfield is an author who shares emergency preparedness ideas so people will be ready for natural and family disasters and be able to help themselves and others in the middle of chaos. She wants to be a blessing to other people. Her novel To Starve an Ember is about wildfires and family disasters and is Book One of the Ready to Go? series.

Wildfire is unavoidable, and we have 45 million homes in the U.S. nestled in among the trees and grassland. More homes and lives could be saved if residents learned to play by wildfire’s rules. Lisa has been teaching about wildfire risk reduction and defensible space since the 2012 Waldo Canyon Fire,  In her novel, To Starve an Ember, Lisa  share the facts about preparing for wildfire in an engaging way.

Lisa has witnessed four wildfires very close to her home and does wildfire property evaluations and tree cutting work with Tri-Lakes United Methodist Church Emergency Preparedness Group. She teaches Community Emergency Response Training (CERT) with Pikes Peak Regional Office of Emergency Management and reports on the public meetings of local government entities in Our Community News.