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Originally Posted by Pete
My B-I-L lives in a canyon out west of Dever that hasn't burned in years.
Frame house with pines coming right up into the yard.
Still wondering why nobody has come up with a bio-degradable 55 gal drum set up that you could hook up to your garden hose and spray out an expanding fire resistant foam that would harden up something like styrofoam.
Spray the house and go somewhere safe until the fire passes by - then kinda' chip the cover off the house.
I've got a picture in my mind of a house looking like the top of a meringue pie.
Buy it and keep it in the garage until needed.
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I was actually thinking of your B-I-L when the Lower North Fork fire was going last month. I knew they had set up the shelter area in Conifer, around where your family is.
That was one crazy fire. The BLM did a control burn 3-4 days before the fire took off. They had crews out watching the area afterwards, but then we had on day of 60mph winds (gusting to 75-80mph) and found some embers and just ignited that while area.
What do you expect .... One of the three greatest lies ever told .... "I'm from the government, I'm here to help."
Glad to hear they made it through that one okay.