Or a tree next to a window with fabric curtains
oh man i forgot about the curtains
so a guy with a flamethrower might be able to start a fire at my house
if he aimed his flamethrower at the curtains
Next question.
Exterior of the home is brick. Is it brick on the inside, or do you have wood and sheetrock on the inside? If so what happens if the bricks somehow get heated red hot all the way through? Say a tree falls against a wall and continues burning up against the brick.
we have an exposed brick interior
i love how it looks
the window frames are wood
the curtains are cloth
the furniture is wood mostly
with some plastic
What are the doors made of?
Now the window frames are wood, what happens to them if they catch fire, and the curtains then catch? What is your ceiling made of?
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doors are made out of wood and glass
im looking at my ceiling right now
i cant say that i know what it is made out of
i guess if a neighbor aimed his flamethrower directly at the ceiling
he might do some damage
but maybe not
i wouldnt presume to say
when people look at my house
they say thats a lot of brick
i think it is in style now
according to my brother
who is from the city
One last thing for you to look at.
What is your floor covering? Wood, plastic, Carpet, mixure of all?
Iām just trying to point out how homes that are āfire proofā can catch fire.
Example 3. Say he first throws a rock through a window. Then uses the flamethrower to start something on fire then throw it through the window.
Now apply all this to a home on the edge of a forrest that is burning.
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the forum gave me a message saying
consider replying to more people
youve already replied 3 times to @Snow96 in this particular topic
sorry for that
but
i guess if a neighbor threw a rock through my window
and then aimed a flamethrower at my ceiling
or my plastic furniture
he could start a good fire
but i think the structure of the house would survive
because it is almost all brick
we could hide in the basement
until the fire passed
or he stopped using his flamethrower
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thanks for all of the advice
now i feel less secure
but i suppose that is good
Now even less secure.
Donāt hide in the basement of a home that may be on fire or could catch on fire. Really Really REALLY bad idea.
but fire burns up
so we would go down
ive never seen fire burn down
Ceiling colapses on floor,. Now your trapped. Floor is now burning your below it. What happens?
Iām not totally sure what youāre talking about. In most cases itās underbrush and blow downs that burns while leaving live trees intact, only when fire gets hot enough does healthy trees starts burning limbs and canopy.
What they found in Yellowstone was all that deadwood created enough heat to dried healthy trees out so they can be burned.
Ever tried burning green firewood?
we catch fire and start screaming
i guess
Well for starters brick take time to heat upā¦once warm it hold the heat. So by clearing brush and deadwood around your house most like nothing will happen to exterior wallsā¦your roof will be the weakest link IMO.
Samm would be a good one to ask because I think heās a building engineer.
now itās hard to burn drywall, in fact from my understanding drywall puts off steam when heated. Like good guns safes. They are lined with several layers of drywall inside. So with added protection you can put family photos in another fireproof boxā¦canāt remember what itās called ATM but from my understand it can preserve your negatives.
This right here. In a health forrest, there isnāt much on the ground to burn. The fire goes through fast and ācoolā leaving the tops of the treeās alive and healthy
Unhealthy forrests (oneās that canāt have the natural cycle of fire, or logging in place of) have a lot of down dead treeās, limbs, branches and other crap piled up. In Arizona in the 1990ās there was a mountain that had several feet of crap all through it because they supressed fire for decades and didnāt allow logging).
When all that crap catches, the fire doesnāt move quickly through the area, it burns hotter, and basically is worse for the forrest than responsible management.
The fire that burned Paradise actually started up further on the mountain. burned through forrest until it got to the town. from there, yes it was embers that started roofās on fire, siding. Then it starts jumping from house to house.
The reason you see the treeās still standing in the city . . . no crap uncer the treeās other than a little grass and bushes that burn fast and cool.
Vinyl will melt, aluminum frame can melt under high heat, windows will shatter, but keep in mind glass is resilient against heat.
So by keeping brush and other burnable materials away from the house it will mostly survive.
Your doors have burn through time. Take your garage door for example. They have ratting for it, like 20 minutes or so.
Again I thing Samm can better answer that.
Exactly, they allowed underbrush and other flammable materials to build up around the town.
This was preventable.
one word.
Environmentalist
