Building codes
Oct. 25th, 2007 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuThe picture on the front page, above the fold, of today's Times shows a block of destroyed houses, with one house on the block still standing. (The closest shot I could find on the Times online appears to be from the same street, but shows more houses still standing.)
Since periodic wildfires are apparently common to SoCal, one wonders why the insurance companies and building codes don't require houses to be built to withstand these fires, since it appears to be possible. Or is this a case where the fire "jumped over" a house that was built the same way as the others in the development?
Since periodic wildfires are apparently common to SoCal, one wonders why the insurance companies and building codes don't require houses to be built to withstand these fires, since it appears to be possible. Or is this a case where the fire "jumped over" a house that was built the same way as the others in the development?