Why ALL the houses dissapeared in ashes but trees are still there? You don't make brick houses?
Why ALL the houses dissapeared in ashes but trees are still there? You don't make brick houses?
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You can make a house fairly fire resistant even with wood construction. Using cement siding.
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I'm sure that would help on the margins but I wonder if a fire of this scale could easily ignite or carbonize the timber frame behind it anyway...
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If the fire was very hot yes, but I don't think these fires were particularly hot.
I would guess they all went up with a bit of spotting from embers blowing ahead of the fire front.
Just using metal mesh helps a lot.
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Makes sense to me, thanks. That last one though... Not sure if crawlspace foundations are common there but if so I bet their vents were open. That's horrifying to imagine embers blowing in and turning your crawlspace into a bellows
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Bricks don't have termite problems
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Sure but you still use wood in brick construction. There is seismic concerns where flexibility is important. And I don't think you can throw up a brick house in an afternoon.
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