8/10: Brush fire

Undertoad · 08-10-2001, 10:59 AM

This was a brush fire in Washington State, and the amazing thing about this image, aside from the fact that it's pretty cool, is that the house in the picture was saved. I don't know how, but it was.

Slight · 08-10-2001, 03:35 PM

I am no fire expert, but from the looks of it, the wind is blowing the other way when the photo was taken. Fires usually spread it the direction of the wind. But I am as amazed as Tony to why this house is still standing.

jaguar · 08-10-2001, 10:03 PM

yea i think you right slight, looks like the entire area is charred though - damn lucky indeed.

Slithy_Tove · 08-11-2001, 05:59 AM

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Originally posted by Tony Shepps
This was a brush fire in Washington State, and the amazing thing about this image, aside from the fact that it's pretty cool, is that the house in the picture was saved. I don't know how, but it was.

It may have been saved through the miracle of telephoto photography. Telephoto lenses squish everything together, and make distant objects look much larger. The fire may have been a long way from the house. It's a night shot, too, without much detail, and it's very hard to judge the relative position of objects in three-dimensional space.

Katkeeper · 08-11-2001, 06:13 AM

Did anyone hear the NPR report about fire fighters risking their lives and spending lots and lots of money to save "trophy houses" of the very rich that were built in places they should not be and then not protected by clearing the bushes and trees from around the house? Interesting questions were raised about whether the fire fighters should do this...

elSicomoro · 08-11-2001, 08:20 PM

Money talks, bullshit walks...whoops!

Seriously though, if you throw around enough payola, it works wonders. Reminds of that episode of "Law & Order" I saw last night.

kaleidoscopic ziggurat · 08-13-2001, 01:08 PM

if you remember the fires in that posh district near LA in the early 90s you may have heard about the miracle house out there... it was built by its owner to be fireproof and actually withstood the blaze while every house on his block got totalled.

08-10-2001, 10:59 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	8/10: Brush fire This was a brush fire in Washington State, and the amazing thing about this image, aside from the fact that it's pretty cool, is that the house in the picture was saved. I don't know how, but it was.

08-10-2001, 10:03 PM	#3
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	yea i think you right slight, looks like the entire area is charred though - damn lucky indeed. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

08-10-2001, 03:35 PM	#2
Slight Semi-Evil Genius Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Boulder CO Posts: 195	I am no fire expert, but from the looks of it, the wind is blowing the other way when the photo was taken. Fires usually spread it the direction of the wind. But I am as amazed as Tony to why this house is still standing.

08-11-2001, 06:13 AM	#5
Katkeeper Hoodoo Guru Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Mechanicsburg PA Posts: 296	Did anyone hear the NPR report about fire fighters risking their lives and spending lots and lots of money to save "trophy houses" of the very rich that were built in places they should not be and then not protected by clearing the bushes and trees from around the house? Interesting questions were raised about whether the fire fighters should do this...

08-11-2001, 08:20 PM	#6
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	Money talks, bullshit walks...whoops! Seriously though, if you throw around enough payola, it works wonders. Reminds of that episode of "Law & Order" I saw last night.

08-13-2001, 01:08 PM	#7
kaleidoscopic ziggurat Coronation Incarnate Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 90	if you remember the fires in that posh district near LA in the early 90s you may have heard about the miracle house out there... it was built by its owner to be fireproof and actually withstood the blaze while every house on his block got totalled.

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