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Community Calendar
C = Church MP = Manor Pool H = Hobbyland NC = Nature Center L = Library O = Other M = Plantation Manor P = Pavilion
SATURDAY 4/2 & 4/9 Hand, Knee and Foot L 11:30 am SUNDAY 4/3 & 4/10 Worship Services C 10:00 am Joker L 1:00 pm Croquet O 2:00 pm Games Night L 6:00 pm MONDAY 4/4 & 4/11 Exercise with Charlotte M 8:00 am Wood Carving Club H 9:00 am Exercise with Charlotte P 9:00 am Zumba M 9:00 am Hatha Yoga P 9:45 am Aquacise MP 10:00 am Bridge M 1:00 pm Swedish Weavers H 1:00 pm Diamond Painting L 1:30 pm Mah Jongg L 6:00 pm Nickel Bingo M 6:00 pm TUESDAY 4/5 & 4/12 Exercise with Charlotte M 8:00 am Aquacise MP 10:00 am Line Dancing M 10:00 am Mah Jongg L 1:00 pm Bingo M 6:00 pm Games Night L 6:30 pm WEDNESDAY 4/6 & 4/13 Exercise with Charlotte M 8:00 am Bridge M 9:00 am Vinyasa Yoga M 9:45 am Aquacise MP 10:00 am Hand, Knee and Foot L 11:30 am Singles at TGO O 12:00 pm Nature Center Program M 7:00 pm THURSDAY 4/7 & 4/14 Exercise with Charlotte M 8:00 am Exercise with Charlotte P 9:00 am Zumba M 9:00 am Aquacise MP 10:00 am Joker L 1:00 pm Quilters H 12:15 pm Shuffleboard O 1:00 pm Rus Anderson/Elton John M-3/10 7:00 pm FRIDAY 4/8 & 4/15 Exercise with Charlotte M 8:00 am Exercise with Charlotte P 9:00 am Zumba M 9:00 am Aquacise MP 10:00 am Joker L 1:00 pm Machine Embroidery Club H 12:00 pm
On-Site Businesses
ACTIVITIES OFFICE - Logo Items
Melanie Matz • 631-365-6640 Carmella Zielinski • 321-269-8023 BLUE HERON RESTAURANT
321-385-9100
Sunday - Saturday 11:00 am - 8:00 pm Lunch & Dinner or Take-Out Food Bar Seating - 10 Persons Max per Table Website: www.blueheronrestaurant.org THE CAFÉ at the Blue Heron Restaurant 321-385-9100
Entrance Door just past Golf Shop Door Convenient Breakfast & Lunch Sunday - Saturday 7:00 am - 2:00 pm EAGLES PRIDE
321-383-0288
RV Parts, Service & Supplies Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Closed Saturday & Sunday EAGLES PRIDE RV SALES
321-383-4495
Consignment RV Sales Lot Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Saturday 10:00 am - 3:00 pm • Closed Sunday GOLFCARTS UNLIMITED
321-268-4882
Club Car - EZ-GO - HDK - Yamaha Sales, Service & Rentals Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Saturday 9:00 am - noon • Closed Sunday MASSAGE THERAPY
321-302-9885
Medical or Swedish Massage • Reflexology E-Stim • Ergonomic Massage Table Therese S. Brown, LMT Monday - Friday • Call for Appointment 321-268-9767
Monday - Friday 8:00 - 11:00 am Call the CSA Office for Appointment Payment by Cash or Check - No Credit Cards TGO GOLF SHOP
321-269-5524
Tee Times, Apparel & Equipment Sunday - Saturday 7:00 am - 5:00 pm Website: www.thegreatoutdoorsgolf.com TGO REALTY, INC.
321-269-5004
Welcome Center • Resort Sales & Rentals Personal Storage Unit Rentals Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Saturday - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Sunday - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm TRIMMERS SALON
321-383-9198
Hair & Spa Services - Men & Women Tuesday - Friday • 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Closed Saturday - Monday MAIL CENTER - 321-269-1666
Monday - Friday 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Saturday 10:00 am - 12 noon
VISITOR ACCESS - 321-383-8802
Call or send an e-mail to guest@tgocsa.org to arrange a Guest Pass for a visitor to your location. Page 13 has important call-in details. GUARD GATE - 321-383-2004
Call to alert Courtesy Patrol about any TGO community problem. Call to request assistance from CSA On-Site Maintenance CHANNEL 732
Spectrum Cable TV service connected to your TGO property allows you to view board meetings that are taking place in the Manor.
Advertiser Index Pg
Airport Shuttle Service 64 Animal Care Clinic 65 Applianceville 57 Black Cat Coffee 70 Blinds of All Kinds 41 Caregiver Services 47 Car/Truck Trader 65 Century 21 Flag Agency 54 Classic Coach Works 46 Colman Heating & Air 52 Contentment Hearing Care 67 Custom Golf Carts 70 Dan Walter Detailing 69 Details Pressure Washing 65 Dr. Arnold Capobianco 68 DynaClean 71 Eagle’s Pride 2 East Coast Air & Heat 66 Feel Better 65 Florida First Roofing 62 Freedom Air & Plumbing 35 Gatto’s Tire & Auto 46 Ginny’s Airport Shuttle 64 Golf Carts Unlimited 7 GQ FL Group Insurance 47 Hair Creations 47 HD Cleaning 47 Jon Kirk Construction 53 Julian Cecio Accounting 70 Keller Williams Realty 61 LeCrave Cafe 63 Mackey’s Renovations 19 Mahoneys Power Wash 53 MATK - My Apple Tech Kris 53 Michael Moulton Const. 64 Motorhome Brokers 63 New Look Concrete Coating 57 Parrish Health & Wellness BC Premiere Appliance Repair 68 Professional Steamworks 67 Results Team 59 Robert Petrie 69 Royal Oak Ministries 25 RV Glamping 58 Satellite Steve 71 Shade & Privacy Products 69 Space Coast Denistry 64 SPCA 66 Sun Insurance 37 Transphoto 36 TGO Realty 42 Therese Brown Massage 69 Trimmers 21 Valerie Koenig Realty 72 Weirich Air 47
Advertising rates for The Happenings are listed on page 73. If you would like to reserve space, contact the editors via email at happenings@tgocsa.com
Table of Contents
Credits...........................................................................................3 Overview .......................................................................................4 Preparation....................................................................................6 Planning ......................................................................................10 Evacuation ..................................................................................10 Additional Information & Resources............................................11 TGO Evacuation Route Map.......................................................12
Credits
This guidebook has been developed by the TGO Firewise Advisory Committee. This committee is made up of TGO resident volunteers and reports to the TGO Board of Directors. Local organizations that act in an advisory role include: Brevard County Fire Rescue Department, Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, City of Titusville FireRescue, Florida Forestry, and the St. Johns River Water Management District.
These organizations provide education and policy actions that help protect TGO from wildfire threats such as participating in TGO emergency drills, providing guest speakers, and operating prescribed burns.
Firewise Communities USA, is a voluntary National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) program to help neighbors in preparing and protecting their homes against the threat of wildfire. TGO is one of 1,500 recognized Firewise USA® communities from across the nation.
Overview
Fire is a natural part of most of our Florida ecosystems. It can maintain healthy natural environs or turn homes to ashes. There are wildfires every year, especially during our “dry” winter season.
TGO is built within a Wildland / Urban Interface; the area where the edge of a community transitions or abuts into woodlands or grass prairie. In TGO we border both woodlands and grassland and often have large thunderstorms that can ignite those ecosystems.
Many wildland / urban interface homes are lost because of fires associated with the most vulnerable parts of a home, the roof and the area immediately surrounding the structure. Fire embers
landing on or around the home or slow-moving fires contacting flammable portions of the structure are the two principle causes of a home being lost.
People who live within this potentially dangerous interface need to take precautions to protect their homes and RVs from fire. Since some preventative measures are too expensive or structurally unfeasible, we will focus on what we can do to minimize this serious threat to our community.
This guide has been designed to serve our community as a resource for what we can do specifically for Preparation, Planning, and Evacuation in a worst-case scenario.
Preparation
There is not much that can be done about a home’s exterior construction without exorbitant costs, but a few simple actions may help save your structure.
• Clean the roof and gutters on your home or RV. Dried leaves and pine needles are perfect materials to catch on fire quickly. • Clean out flammable materials underneath your deck and RV. • Make sure there is no vegetation touching any structures. • Consider your out building construction type and what is stored in it. Think of combustibles inside that once ignited will make the fire go from small to explosive. LP tanks, gasoline, lawn chemicals, or fertilizers are all potential significant fire hazards. • Have your house number easily visible from the street so that emergency services can find you both during the day and night. • Keep 50-100 feet of hose readily available at a faucet away from the structure.
• Have tools such as a shovel, rake, handsaw, bucket, and fire extinguisher easily assessable.
Your Landscaping: Lean, Clean, and Green
The goal of Firewise landscaping is to create and maintain a minimum of a 30-foot safety zone around the home or RV.
This “defensible space” safety zone increases the likelihood that a home or RV will survive a wildfire, even in the absence of firefighters.
Remember, that you must have written permission to remove any living shrubs or trees beyond your property line. Contact CSA if you have questions about removal and consult the Architectural Review Board before making landscape changes.
This 30-foot defensible space does not need to be devoid of shrubs and trees, but should be wisely landscaped with plants known to be less-flammable, separated by walkways and grassed areas.
The defensible space breaks up the continuity of any vegetation that might otherwise bring fire from adjacent wildlands to the structure. This space also provides room for firefighters to safely work to defend a structure.
• Defensible space should extend 30 feet outward from the home or RV.
• Remove any “ladder fuels”. Ladder fuels are vines and shrubs that can carry a ground fire up into the treetops. • Remove downed branches, dead palm fronds, and pine needles to the curb for CSA pickup. • Prune tree limbs so the lowest branches are more than 6 to 10 feet from the ground. • Remove large groupings of highly flammable plants especially if the plants are close to the home or RV, adjacent to decks or porches, or under eaves or overhangs. See the tables on the next page for comparisons of plant flammability. • Use lava stone or coarse gravel around any shrubbery next to the structure instead of flammable mulch like bark or wood chips.
LESS-FLAMMABLE SHRUBS Agave* Aloe*
Anise* Azalea* Beauty Berry* Camellia Century Plant* Coontie* Hydrangea Indian Hawthorne Oakleaf Hydrangea* Oleander Philodendron Pittosporum Pyracantha Red Yucca* Viburnum*
LESS-FLAMMABLE TREES
Ash* Basswood* Black Cherry* Blue Beech* Catalpa* Citrus Crepe Myrtle Dogwood* Elm* Green Button* Gumbo-Limbo* Hawthorne* Hophornbeam* Jacaranda Loquat Magnolia* Mahogany* Maple* Oaks* Peach Pecan* Persimmon* Pigeon Plum* Plum* Red Bay* Red Mulberry* Redbud* River Birch* Satin Leaf* Sea Grape* Silver Button* Sparkleberry Sweet Gum* Sweet Acacia* Sycamore* Tabebuia Viburnum* Willow* Winged Elm* Pindo Palm Alexander Palm Sago Palm Queen Palm King Sago Palm Pygmy Date Palm
MORE-FLAMMABLE TREES AND SHRUBS
American Holly* Arborvitae Arizona Cypress
Bald Cypress* Boxwood*
Cabbage Palm* Gall berry* Italian Cypress Juniper* Leyland Cypress Melaleuca Pampas Grass Pines* Red Cedar* Saw Palmetto* Wax Myrtle* Yaupon Holly* Yew
*Florida natives that require less care once established
Planning
Have an evacuation bag or box of your most important items ready to “grab and go”. Consider including cash, copies of important documents, financial account list, phone charger cords, phone numbers (if your phone fails), medications, basic first aid kit, flashlight, drinking water, food, toilet paper, hand sanitizer, pet carrier/leash/food, and any easily transported irreplaceable family mementoes.
Test yourself, you have just received the notice that you have 15 minutes to leave… What do you take and how fast can you assemble those items?
Perform an annual review of your insurance.
Evacuation
In the event, despite our efforts to contain a wildfire, there may come a time when we must evacuate a portion or all of TGO.
Brevard County Law enforcement will make that decision and mandate how and when the evacuation will take place.
Due to our narrow, winding roads and significant number of residents, any evacuation from TGO will be challenging. In addition, our main two-lane road in and out of TGO may not be
available to us for evacuation due to the arrival of emergency personnel and their equipment.
TGO’s designated Emergency Exit is via the Blue Heron Water Reclamation Facility (see map next page). This exit will NOT support heavy or long vehicles. Do not plan to use your RV as
an evacuation vehicle.
Look at the map and follow the arrows for your evacuation route unless otherwise directed by emergency personnel.
Additional Information & Resources
Video about TGO Firewise program • Reducing Wildfire Risks at TGO Useful links for more information: • NFPA Firewise: http://www.Firewise.org • NFPA’s Improve your home's wildfire safety in 60 minutes: caring for the plants you value • TGO Firewise: o https://www.tgocsa.org/ or TGO Firewise o Search for “TGO Firewise” page on Facebook • FL Division of Emergency Management: https://www.floridadisaster.org/
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