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In houses than are typically built with a wooden frame. From a European pov, that sounds like a recipe for fire.
by ur-whale 6y ago
In houses than are typically built with a wooden frame. From a European pov, that sounds like a recipe for fire.
- michaelt 6y agoAmericans love building single-storey detached houses on big lots. And when they build an upper floor, they love complex roof systems where almost every upper floor window has a first floor roof or porch below it. This means problems like fires spreading to adjacent buildings and fires trapping people where they can't escape are much reduced; you'd never see a repeat of the great fire of London in an American suburb because there's practically a fire break between every single home. This is made affordable by America's vast tracts of land and high rates of car ownership.
- maxerickson 6y agoI'm curious how you'd compare the Great Chicago Fire (that happened ~200 years later)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chicago_Fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chicago_Fire The same day, a forest fire ravaged a number of small towns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshtigo_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshtigo_fire