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trying to kill a fire it's like the
battle you can almost not win vicious
and it's fast comes with a fury it will
eat through timber until it's inside of
the house and then it's it's horror the
fires we remember aren't really the ones
that burn a lot of land they're the ones
that burn a lot of homes and buildings
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most of our building codes really focus
on fires originating on the inside of
the building when you're looking at a
fire sort of originating from the
outside of a building it's really a
different logic close to the house we
want to have a non combustible zone in
terms of selection of vegetation where
you put it how you maintain it how often
you maintain it clean vegetation around
your house so remove the fuel that you
have on the ground that can spread the
flames don't put shrubs next to the
house that can start catching fire don't
put sort of combustible wooden decks
next to your house
some materials that inherently or more
fireproof brick cement board natural
materials like slate or clay products
they don't combust they're not a fuel
source
either you protect the siding of your
house with an outer shell which is not
flammable or you add fire retardants and
other chemical paint our coding which
will prevent them to learn
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make sure you have a finer mesh screen
covering the vent eighth of an inch mesh
or 16th of mesh mesh
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all the embers that fly with the wind
and sort of land on the roof could
easily spark a fire roofs are being
replaced every 15 20 years anyway so you
could have a local code saying well you
really have to put a fire rated
shingling material on top of your roof
you could use metal roofing for example
fired clay tiles
unfortunately these all tend to be a
little bit more expensive but they're
also more durable
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we have to design our communities so
that if a few houses are burning it will
not spread to the world community will
see more and more fires this problem is
not going away
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