KNPR13d
Some Los Angeles homes made it through the firestorm. Here's how
In Los Angeles, fire experts are surveying the surviving homes ... But the flames didn't ignite the rest of the house, ...
Why are lone homes left standing after the Los Angeles fires? It’s not entirely luck
The scattershot nature of the carnage in the Los Angeles wildfires is confounding homeowners and experts alike. So does luck ...
How to rebuild a more fire-proof Los Angeles
In Pacific Palisades, part of the fire danger came from the fact that homes were densely packed together. If the home next ...
Undark9d
How Los Angeles Can Fireproof Communities, Not Just Houses
As houses continued to burn in Los Angeles, officials had already started talking about rebuilding the city. “We’re going to ...
Why some L.A. homes remain standing next to ones destroyed by fires: "Like a blow torch"
Many experts say luck does play a part — but they also say there are many ways that homes can be made less vulnerable to fire.
NBC Los Angeles11d
When houses are fuel: Why firefighting was no match for a California disaster decades in the making
There’s a hard math behind the Los Angeles-area firestorm ... Soon, it puts off radiant heat that can ignite the exterior of the home next door, which then allows fire to penetrate to the ...
The New York Times11d
Open Houses in Los Angeles Take on an Eerie Feeling
When they were making plans to flip the home, they could not predict the catastrophic fires that have engulfed Los Angeles, threatening their property and upending the real estate market.
NBC News11d
The homes are the fire's fuel
There’s a hard math behind the Los Angeles-area firestorm ... Soon, it puts off radiant heat that can ignite the exterior of the home next door, which then allows fire to penetrate to the ...
USA Today13d
No, these houses are not the sole survivors of LA wildfire | Fact check
The post was shared more than 9,000 times in five days. Media images and other data show more than two homes have survived the Los Angeles area wildfires. One image in the post is more than a ...
USA Today13d
Red roof house survived Hawaiian wildfire, not associated with Los Angeles | Fact check
"This is the home of a Christian in Los Angeles, California," reads the post's caption. "While the houses around him were destroyed by fire, his house remained untouched. God promise in Psalm 91:1 ...