RE: fire

[goshawk@gnat.net]

Just got a report from a friend of mine. 
(Strawboss this is the Debbie's place)

Last week on a cold cold night (cold for middle GA anyway)
My friends had stoked up the wood burning stove while hosting a 
social event. The wood burning stove was located only a couple of 
inches from the cement stabilzied earth plasted wall. Somewhere 
around 2am the wall started smoking. They initially tried to pour 
water down the top of the wall thru holes punched in the top of the 
wall. The smoking would die down then start back up. Finally I was 
told that they had to rip a  section of plaster about 2 feet wide and 
about 6 feet on either side of the wood burning stove to pull out any 
smoldering strawbale. 

When I ask the fellow, why did you have the stove so close with no 
heat shield or such and he replied that he had heard so much 
about the fire resistance of strawbale. 

Thus the moral of the story is :
fire resistant does not equal fire proof.

Pat
Mauk GA.
Pat Newberry
http://www.gnat.net/~goshawk