JAMUL, Calif. – The warm breeze in East County is bringing a red flag warning with it.“We’re getting a lot of calls to just make sure that homes are properly ready for the embers when they come,” Riley Logsdon, Dana Logsdon Roofing & SolarLogdson said the biggest thing for homeowners is to make sure the ventilation system in your home aren’t going take in possible embers.“Cause the ventilation system with the intake of the vent, they’re sucking in all of the cold air.
“What you could do is they have special vents that are either retrofitted to existing vents or new vents that you can use that’ll actually stop the embers from coming inside. They’re Class A fire-rated,” Logdson said.Cal Fire said a majority of homes destroyed by fires are torched by embers.“As the fire’s moving, that smoke column that’s going up in the air, that’s convective heat. That’s taking that smoke and the heat and the embers up in the air and then there’s mixture of wind with that.