Facing Wildfire Risk, Homeowners Turn to New Innovations to Protect Their Homes
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2023
- Some Bay Area homeowners and homebuilders are taking action to reduce their wildfire risk with new innovations. Consumer Investigative Reporter Chris Chmura reports.
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Why do you always pick the most expensive way to fireproof your house?
I hope these companies and similar are looking north to places like Kelowna in British Columbia. We need to use strategies to prevent/minimize future fire damage.
I just forwarded this to all of my family members
The fire officials I've talked to in San Mateo County have said a house wildfire sprinkler system could cause the water pressure to be lower for them making it more difficult to fight fires in the neighborhood.
most homes lost in wildfires catch fire from embers that kindle light fuels close to the house. The first five feet is some of the easies and most important area to saving a home from a wildfire. There is never 100 % grantee your home will survive but odds can be increased.
My house was made by fire. Brick, concrete, steel.
Insurance companies don't want solutions for California they just want out of California.
Anything to fight /prevent fire is worth doing he says . but apparently cutting down trees 30 metres away from the house is not worth it.
excellent for fire. divine during heatwave...
I really think my city should place some sort of defensive system in all of their newer residential buildings. It’s the city of Morgan Hill California
that 1st house with the sprinklers- yeah its got a little resistance to a ground fire but if the fire is crowning- no matter how much water is being sprayed around, it will flash to steam and the house will catch fire anyway. need to have a defensible space around the home- nothing combustable within 50ft radius and in the next 100ft radius everything needs 10ft spacing. thats why he cant get insured, he hasnt done enough to help fireproof his home. + sprinklers on homes isnt the new innovation- that idea has been around for decades. its just the technology to start and run it is the innovation.
For starters stop building your houses out of (fire)wood
Yeah he had trees right next to the house. And it seemed like some sprinklers under the roof. You need them up on the roof.
Or you just build your house out of fireproof materials. Easier
Isn’t fair,😊
New innovations?