Wildfire insurance: To lower cost, pay to fortify your home

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“Fire insurance has dropped us like, I don't want to say hot potatoes, but they just left us high and dry. It's hard to get a mortgage or anything up here if you can't get fire insurance,” says Kern County Fire Safe Council Secretary Kathleen Weinstein, second from left. Photo by Caleigh Wells.

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