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You can make a house fairly fire resistant even with wood construction. Using cement siding.
I'm sure that would help on the margins but I wonder if a fire of this scale could easily ignite or carbonize the timber frame behind it anyway...
If the fire was very hot yes, but I don't think these fires were particularly hot.
I would guess they all went up with a bit of spotting from embers blowing ahead of the fire front.
Just using metal mesh helps a lot.
Makes sense to me, thanks. That last one though... Not sure if crawlspace foundations are common there but if so I bet their vents were open. That's horrifying to imagine embers blowing in and turning your crawlspace into a bellows
Bricks don't have termite problems
Sure but you still use wood in brick construction. There is seismic concerns where flexibility is important. And I don't think you can throw up a brick house in an afternoon.