I remember that house. The firemen figured they could only save one house. They looked around and saw the Korean guy's house built out of fire resistant materials. They chose to save that house and not try to save the neighboring houses. Interestingly the Korean home owner had no insurance!
I have a sister in CA. CA is very strict with their building codes. Both in regards to earthquakes and wild fires. My sis' home owners insurance also requires that brush within a certain distance of the house be cut at certain intervals 4 times a year.
There ARE very specific building codes for building in a flood plane.
People have the wrong idea about houses that are in the flood plane. For the most part they are not in wet or swampy areas. A lot of times you'd never expect an area to be in a flood plane. Many areas are only in a 100 year flood plane because they flooded before any drainage improvements were made.
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