The house behind ours burned to the supporting timbers last night at about 1:30. The flames took hold in minutes -- so fast, so incredibly fast
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I'm really worried about the dog, yeah. I don't know where he was. They weren't at home, so he very well might've been outside, this being Oklahoma. Or he might've been in the detached garage, which survived just fine.
That's just... horrifying. :( I LOVE watching fire but seeing a home burn would be so sad. Let us hope wherever the neighbors were, their pets were with them. How sad! Glad your own home was not threatened. The bushfires here burnt entire towns this year, destroying just thousands of homes, killing over 200 people, many of them dying in the process of trying to flee the inferno. The worst are the entire families burnt to death in their cars where the fires outran them!
There's actually a law in Montreal that all buildings must be built of non-flamable material. It was written up centuries ago to stop the fires. (And makes good sense, really).
Brick and concrete are a lot more resilient to a lot of problems you find in America... termites and tornadoes being a couple as well as fire. [add a good solid cellar and fire-proof internal doors and you could prevent a lot of deaths.]
We got an update, and it's not. I wondered that, but as this is a really upscale neighborhood, and the residents were an older lady and her band-geek son, and the house was one of those $250k+ white-carpeted two-story numbers, I deemed that unlikely.
It was apparently some kids who were caught on film buying gasoline at the QT down the street. I think they probably knew her, related to her job as a drug/addiction counselor, and had something against her. This felt really personal. They went INSIDE to start the fire.
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I do wonder if maybe we should stop building our homes out of what amounts to chunks of starch.
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[add a good solid cellar and fire-proof internal doors and you could prevent a lot of deaths.]
They're also better at retain heat..or cool.
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It was apparently some kids who were caught on film buying gasoline at the QT down the street. I think they probably knew her, related to her job as a drug/addiction counselor, and had something against her. This felt really personal. They went INSIDE to start the fire.
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