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Topic: building-codes

A firefighter wraps a cabin to protect it from embers and radiant heat (file image)
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Saturday, 7/11, 10:58 AM

How Fire Labs Are Learning to Stop Wildfires From Burning Down Homes

  • As wildfires grow more destructive, researchers are deliberately recreating them in the lab, blasting test structures with flying embers, heat and wind to learn why some homes burn and others survive.
  • Their central finding is counterintuitive: most homes are lost not to the wall of flame, but to the embers it throws ahead of it.

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