Fire Safe Council sponsors Chipping Day to improve fire safety

The Fallbrook Fire Safe Council sponsored a "Chipping Day" on Saturday, May 18th, at Fire Station 4 in the corner of Pala Mesa Dr. and Old Hwy 395 from 7:30 am to 1:30 pm. The event supports the Council's community outreach program of creating a venue for local residents to bring their cut vegetation to a central site for disposal and ultimately supporting the effort to help make Fallbrook fire safe.

Throughout the event, over thirty-five residents from the Fallbrook, Bonsall, DeLuz and Rainbow areas took advantage of this free event. They brought over seventy truck and trailer loads of branch...