Ft McMurray Fires

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

How does a fire start underneath the house when nothing around it is burning?

Door bell camera demonstrates why so many adjacent houses burned while others in the same neighborhood remain intact. Those embers would start fires even a mile away. In this case, it may have gotten under the porch where leaves had collected. First pictures show smoke only coming out from under the porch.

Apparently columns were constructed without a fire stop (ie sheet rock) inside.