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Originally Posted by topflightpro
I found this story about the one house to survive the Malibu fires earlier this year incredibly interesting: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mal...es-11553783662
Yes, I've seen stuff about fireproofing before and it's surprising it's not done more, especially on the higher priced houses. A friend had a house right on the edge of the hills and he put in an attic sprinkler system, concrete eves, etc. Two fires in that area and no problems yet his neighbor lost the roof in one of those fires.
The houses in the "Getty fire" are all at least $2 million and they just went up like paper. No reason to not use the latest features there.
The high winds are back today and there's another new fire west of here. Sucks.
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