Posted by JML755 on August 03, 2018 at 06:09:07 from (166.137.12.85):
In Reply to: California Fires posted by 37chief on August 02, 2018 at 13:29:26:
I wish I could find my copy of a 90's Fine Homebuilding magazine that showed an aerial shot of a subdivision on a hillside in California. A fire decimated the sub but there was ONE big white house completely intact. The article detailed what saved the house AND the design features responsible. IIRC, it had triple pane windows, tile roof, cement stucco siding and the hillside around it was planted with special low greenery that burst when fire hit it and let loose water from the plants. I think the place also had a sprinkler system. Not sure if it could withstand the kind of fires now seen in California where a wall of fire moves through.
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