hardening

She called herself “Smooth” and Parker “Silk,” and welcomed the role of hardening the rookie, likening it to “having another baby.”

He said Barger was open to revisiting best practices, but deferred to the Public Works and Fire departments as the leading experts on fire resilience and home hardening.

But the mood of many in the parliamentary party appears to be hardening.

Without complementary requirements for hardening the homes themselves, widespread clearing of landscaping immediately around homes could do little to reduce risk and could even aggravate the danger.

Many schools are “hardening the target,” making it impossible to see inside rooms, limiting ground-floor windows, locking entry doors and reinforcing them with steel.