text:  If you have dry vegetation growing right up to your house or a barn or something, trim that back. Maybe right at the night of the 4th, but to protect your house, one of the best things you can do is just make sure that some of that combustible vegetation is trimmed back away from your house so that you have what we call defensible space so that if some vegetation does catch on fire, it's not going to just go directly into your house.