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@go-tazz wrote:
@davidc4430 wrote:i have watched videos made by fire departments showing homes (created for the demonstration) exploding into fire just becaise the temp got so high it caused combustion when there was no actual fire.
i read one home owner in the fires just a week ago i think say they witnessed their homes windows explode out from the internal heat build up before the fire reached the house.
they were on the other side to the oncomming fire front getting into cars to get out when suddenly boom, windows just blew out!
There are a number of ways that a house can be destroyed in a bushfire and that's why I only posted about ember attacks which destroy homes..
i wasnt trying to say your comments were wrong
just adding you dont need embers or actual burning stuff to light a house on fire, just plain high temp will do it too.
Not a problem.
There used to be a warning that if a fire was approaching and even if you were leaving put wet rags in the gutters
to prevent ember attacks but that was stopped as those rags dried out and caught fire if the fire got close enough.
I've driven through the Adelaide Hills a number of times and if you go through the smaller out of the way place
via the back roads you will see hardly any fire reduction at all.
One year during summer there was a few houses surrounded by dried out grass/weeds that was over 2 foot high
and if that caught fir everything there would've gone.
We used to deliver furniture in the Hills and where they allowed people to build was mind bogling at times as any
mistake and you could end up down the bottom of a cliff or a fire could quickly cut of your escape route.
