Re: fire

[strawboss94@juno.com]

Bummer. I have revisited there since the sb raising and she showed me the
place. A lot of progress. She had addressed some things which had
concerned me. I did mentally note the stove proximity. Did she have a
battery powered smoke detector (she's off grid)? I'm so glad she was not
in bed sleeping soundly!!!!!!
Still, this information is SOOOOOOO important to folks doing sb. Thanks
for sharing.
strawboss

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:43:20 -0500 goshawk@gnat.net writes:
> 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