{"id":87932,"date":"2025-12-09T18:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/87932\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T18:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:45:06","slug":"california-home-fire-protection-rules-delayed-again-amid-homeowner-pushback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/87932\/","title":{"rendered":"California Home-Fire Protection Rules Delayed Again Amid Homeowner Pushback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A California state agency won\u2019t meet Governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s year-end deadline to finish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2025-08-12\/california-failed-to-roll-out-home-fire-protections-ahead-of-la-wildfires?srnd=phx-green\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">long-delayed regulations<\/a> to protect homes from wildfires, rules that experts say could have limited the destruction of the January <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/latest\/los-angeles-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Los Angeles firestorms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">At a meeting of the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection on Monday, chair Terrence O\u2019Brien said officials would wait until March 2026 to continue work on regulations to require ember-resistant zones, called Zone Zero, around some 2 million houses in high-risk wildfire areas. That means it could be mid-2029 or later before any mandate takes effect for existing homes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California state agency won\u2019t meet Governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s year-end deadline to finish long-delayed regulations to protect homes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,10555,49136,9180,405,18237,721,47,25248,1301,1009],"class_list":["post-87932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-cities","tag-executives","tag-finance","tag-government","tag-green","tag-law","tag-los-angeles","tag-megacity","tag-regulation","tag-southern-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}