Fire and roof tiles

[BALEHEAD@delphi.com]

>  Amazingly it said that houses in a wildfire burn from the inside out. 
> It gets so hot in these fires that the interior combusts and the 
> resulting fire takes out the rest of the structure. That whole concept 
> sounds so  incredible to me that maybe I got it wrong. But I do  seem to 
> remember seeing houses explode before just before the flames got them in 
> the great 1969 fire in San Diego. Maybe I imagined that too.
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> r2

This phenomenon is the result of over-consumption.  Huge houses constructed
with no regard for resource efficiency often explode, even spontaneously, from 
the burden of their own gluttony.  If you don't believe it, ask Dr. Science. 

John "Burphead" Swearingen
                    Skillful Means Builders
                    www.snowcrest.net/smb
                    somewhere in California
                    
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