Comes to protecting your family home. Hardening is vital video from over the mosquito fire last year shows flames crowning off the tops of trees. That's what sends embers flying and it can destroy homes miles away. We got *** look at the latest upgrades that could save your home. If *** fire strikes, just the sight of smoke can be daunting. Especially if you live in an area prone to wildfires. Lake of the pines homeowner. Scott Butterfield has lived here for more than two decades. It's become riskier as these years have gone by today. He's hardening his home to give him and his family the best defense, the more you can clear out that space, the less risk you're going to take. Butterfield hired home hardening solutions. *** company based in Grass Valley to help. We knew that HHS could do the things they're doing, blocking the vents, increasing the defensible space. That's *** huge part. Keep the grass down, fuels down and keep space between the cracks. That's where Connor Ferrell and his crews come in. We'll go through the home with the homeowner and we'll, we'll make *** plan specific to the home, things like this old vent need to be replaced with something like this offering layers and layers of protection from wildfires. This is *** Vulcan vent and so this Vulcan vent actually swells shut if the heat really hits it. Yes, studies show most homes lost to wildfire are from ember storms, embers can get blown in there during *** wildfire. Farrell searches the property for weak spots and notices *** few dead trees. So we'll start out with suppressed trees. We'll start out with opening the canopy, taking out any brush grass fuel ladder from underneath. We've got an excavator with it. Think of it as like *** really huge weed. So rather than cutting grass, though, it's cutting brush, grinding hazards into mulch decks can also be dangerous. Installing this mesh, stainless steel provides another line of defense, an added layer of protection that could stop the flames and save lives. Ultimately, what we're trying to do is improve survivability.