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Not News From the Hugo Fire Department BECOME"FIRE WISE" The most important things you can do to protect your family and home from wildfire are: Many homes in Hugo are built in wooded areas or are near wild land. Unfortunately,these homes may be Make sure your address is clearly visible from the vulnerable to wildfire. This spring,Hugo's Fire road. Department will work in cooperation with the -Maintain at least 30 feet between your home and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in the surrounding wildland fuels,such as native vegeta- "Fire Wise"program,designed to identify areas at risk tion,dry grass,woodpiles,and dead tree limbs. to wildfire and develop strategies to reduce this risk. • Have a roof that will not burn. Homes at risk to wildfire have three common factors: The Hugo Fire Department has placed a map on the Access: Emergency vehicles can't find or safely get to City's web site(www.ci.hugo.mn.us)which is color- the home. coded to identify those residences which are at risk for wildfires. For more information regarding the"Fire Vegetation: Vegetation around the home allows a fire Wise"program and what you can do to reduce the risk to enlarge and overrun the home. of wildfire to your home,contact Assistant Fire Chief Jadon 011ila at 651-429-6366,ext. 19 or stop by City Structure: The design and building materials of the Hall to pick up a variety of"Fire Wise"informational home allow burning embers to easily ignite the home. publications. You can also check out the"Fire Wise" web site at www.firewise.org. Remember to Your Garbage Bill is Recycle Changing Since 1989,Washington County has collected a Did you know? It takes the same amount of energy to make 20 Waste Management Service Charge(WMSC)on aluminum cans from recycled aluminum or one property tax statements. The WMSC is used to can from bauxite,the mineral ore. Used alu- pay for environmental services such as household Used aluminum minum cans that are recycled return to store hazardous waste sites and recycling grants to shelves as new cans within 60-90 days. cities. Beginning in April 2003 the county will cans that are change the way it funds these environmental serv- In Hugo, items for recycling are collected curbside ices. They will now be funded through a County recycled return as part of your weekly trash collection. A recy- Environmental Charge(CEC)that will appear on cling container is available from your garbage your garbage bill. to store shelves hauler or by calling City Hall at 651-762-6300. Those items which can be recycled include news- The CEC is not a new charge—it's just a new as new cans papers,aluminum beverage cans,tin cans,glass way of collecting funds for county programs and jars and bottles,corrugated cardboard,glossy services. The county is making this change to within 60-90 magazines,and car and tractor batteries. make paying for environmental services more fair. The WMSC was a flat fee and was not relat- days. ed to garbage volume. The new CEC will be .. 34.2%of the garbage portion of your trash bill. Since garbage bills are based on the volume of � trash produced,those who throw away more will pay more. For more information on the CEC,please visit the Washington County web site at www.co.washing- ton.mn.us/pubhlth/cec.html or call 651-275-7303. 1