George Pyle: We all need a little ‘defensible space’

Firefighters call it a “defensible space.”Or that’s what they would call it, if they weren’t too exhausted and gasping for breath after days and weeks of battling wildfires to be able to say anything.It is the idea, promoted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other state and local experts, that a really good way to prevent your home or business from being consumed by the next huge wildfire is to tend to the surrounding ground.It is pruning or removing trees or