Sometimes Fire attacks Bricks and Mortar and Hoods and Engine Blocks and Steel and Aluminum and sometimes it attacks trees and leaves and grass
Sometimes the wind blows the embers all around as in a storm and sometimes not so much. Sometimes the fire attacks nails in fences but not fences.
Careful, those embers can fly off that structure and melt that van. ☝️
Careful, bushes!
You don’t want this to happen to you!
Okay.
Sure. Probably because of the magical homeless arson factor.
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Peggy Hall.
Peggy: “This is Jeff Bridges’s home in Malibu. It is constructed entirely of brick.”
*edited to add this now-pinned comment that disputes this account*
Sage, Jeff's house is brick veneer. It's not a brick house. They stopped making brick buildings due to cost eons ago. Take a look at some pics of old brick buildings. Every 5 or so "courses" of brick you'll see a row that doesn't look like the other. That's called a Soldier Course. Generally structural brick is two layers deep for stability. That soldier course ties the two walls together so it doesn't fall down. If Jeff's house was truly brick some of the walls would still be standing (in a normal fire). In his house the structural members are either lightweight metal or wood. They'll burn and the brick will collapse in as the plywood its stacked against burns away. There's also aluminum ties they put at various locations in the mortar to hold the facade against the wood so the front of the house doesn't fall off. See if you can find some old time pictures of fires in Boston. St Louis, NYC, Jersey, Philly that show truly brick structures still standing after being gutted by fire. The City I worked for was the location of the battle of the Monitor and Merrimack so there are some very old buildings in that city including residences. This was the premise of my very first comment to you that Peggy is just a little off base on the fire behavior and building construction pertaining to fire. I hesitate to say that because some crazy person is gonna start yelling at me again about some nonsensical stuff I never said or meant. Anyway she's rite but not exactly depending on the context. Hope this helps your search. Again The Essentials of Modern Firefighting is a great book as well as Building Construction for The Fire Service. Probably out there as a bootleg PDF somewhere. Goes into detail about the electrical fire stuff that I'm still happy to help you flesh out if needed. I doubt you need my help but if so, just holla.
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Sage, Jeff's house is brick veneer. It's not a brick house. They stopped making brick buildings due to cost eons ago. Take a look at some pics of old brick buildings. Every 5 or so "courses" of brick you'll see a row that doesn't look like the other. That's called a Soldier Course. Generally structural brick is two layers deep for stability. That soldier course ties the two walls together so it doesn't fall down. If Jeff's house was truly brick some of the walls would still be standing (in a normal fire). In his house the structural members are either lightweight metal or wood. They'll burn and the brick will collapse in as the plywood its stacked against burns away. There's also aluminum ties they put at various locations in the mortar to hold the facade against the wood so the front of the house doesn't fall off. See if you can find some old time pictures of fires in Boston. St Louis, NYC, Jersey, Philly that show truly brick structures still standing after being gutted by fire. The City I worked for was the location of the battle of the Monitor and Merrimack so there are some very old buildings in that city including residences. This was the premise of my very first comment to you that Peggy is just a little off base on the fire behavior and building construction pertaining to fire. I hesitate to say that because some crazy person is gonna start yelling at me again about some nonsensical stuff I never said or meant. Anyway she's rite but not exactly depending on the context. Hope this helps your search. Again The Essentials of Modern Firefighting is a great book as well as Building Construction for The Fire Service. Probably out there as a bootleg PDF somewhere. Goes into detail about the electrical fire stuff that I'm still happy to help you flesh out if needed. I doubt you need my help but if so, just holla.
Some embers are asymptomatic.