Same for this 64 year old lady!!!

Same for this 62 year old.

Same for this 45-year-old woman!🥰

Yes I have been watching since the beginning as well and I still miss Charles Kuralt 💔 absolutely wonderful delightful program!

@@JillShaw yes he was. I loved his travel segments!

And you are the company owner's spouse? Did you know this guy wants $300 per foot, and; how many years have these materials been approved? Chinese drywall sounded great 20 years ago too. How did that great idea turn out?

@@chriswesterfield2042 Quonset's huts have been around from 1942, and so they work, beauty however is in the eye of the beholder, and beauty does not last.

it doesnt work... the radiant heat rusts the metal exterior, everything inside cooks....watch it again, and pay attention to "it resists catching on fire from embers.." if you want to be fireproof go undergrround construction or earth cov.

It does work. You clearly don't understand wildland fire behavior or fire mitigation.@@stanallport6746

Really good point! One of the problems with stone is that unreinforced masonry is earthquake vulnerable. Golden State indeed! I think that stone buildings should be part of the plan in every community facing fires. It doesn't have to be a glorified Q hut. Doesn't have to look like a Ranger Station. Stone is a construction component that has a generational historical foundation. Organic to our environment and pleasing to the senses. I don't know why people need to redesign the most useable wheel and call it an improvement.

Exactly! And get the fire retardant spray that works on property , land, and on the house. A photo of a burn area, I believe in NV is amazing proof of how it works.

Metal can warp and distort. Also Hemp houses could be used for insulation fire resistance. Now I can have the Q hut I have always wanted.

I'm an American here in Cebu. Every building we are constructing is concrete and steel. However, the price of supplies and labor is a fraction of that in America. Plus what Everyone is missing is that those fires were all set to drive out owners so investors like Black Rock and Vanguard can buy them up.

@@airwess3369 wow. I’d love to see evidence of that. Seriously, I hate Blackrock with an unholy passion, but that’s a serious allegation. PG&E dropping the ball on maintenance in exchange for profit is bad enough (and provable), but Hedge funds burning people out? That sounds like a play straight from the GQP Playbook. Except everybody knows they’re in the pockets of big business…

Back in China, our homes were built from concrete. It doesn't burn. You can't really have that in California because of earthquakes. A concrete building would crumble and bury you.

@@SunnyWu That is true, unless you use steel with the concrete. That doe make it more expensive.

Taxpayers should not be subsidizing private mortgages in risky areas while over 1/3 of households who RENT have heavy rent burdens, people are driven by HIGH RENTS to live in their cars, and are made homeless because the rent is too damn high, but somehow we have no money ever for renters ever in this country. If a natural disaster strikes your rental, you're out of luck. This cannot stand.

Ever hear of renters insurance?

@@kitcoffey7194 we require our tenants to carry renters insurance but anyone can buy their own home nowadays its actually easier and less expensive to buy instead of rent i encourage our tenants to seek ownership

Mandates are what many conservatives don't agree with. They see it as infringing on their freedoms. So while seeing these images of the fire that ravaged Paradise may make you think "why don't they just build SAFER?" makes all the sense in the world to you and anyone watching, jumping the political hoops to actually implement the mandates that you speak of would be politically unpopular.

@@slickburrito - Yes...of course...The freedom to be stupid! The freedom to just let insurance, or government take care of it. The freedom for those very same politicians to think only of themselves and their re-election (can anyone say 'term limits?) instead of doing what is best for The People.

I agree

hard to build, wasted space, higher costs, not many tornadoes relative to expense of variations

I talked to a guy who briefly lived in Kansas but moved away because there were so many tornadoes destroying houses around them.

@@MustangsTrainsMowers Super rare. I lived in Kansas. If I had built there, I'd use 18" centers on the studs, tie down the walls with extra bolts running from the concrete foundation. Reasonable precautions, but not a full re-design of proven methods.

Ok go ahead and do that. Maybe someone else will try a dome shaped house some day and have a tornado go over doing nothing to it.

Most of the fires in Paradise burned because they didn't have fire resistant roofing material installed. The biggest mistake is to not make the house fire resistant by removing forced debris like pine cones and needles and branches out of the gutters. They didn't remove them from the troughs of the roofs. They didn't remove them from underneath the deck and put a fire screen on the deck opening. They didn't remove the twigs the bark dust the flammable things that are dry around the foundation. There should be absolutely nothing up next to the house maybe 3 to 5 ft away it should be pretty much sand or gravel. In the case of paradise vinyl is an absolute No-No. All window frames need to be metal all gutters need to be metal. Siding needs to be metal or cement board. This is going a little bit above Beyond to make a fire resistant house. Nearest trees and bushes should be a minimum of 30 to 50 ft away. All plants need to be extremely hydrated with water. Test plants for fire resistance even when they are slightly dry.

unfortunately, it's not part of the traditional building paradigm and architecture is inherently conservative in the United States. Homes have looked the same for the last 30 years.

Or government and city can cut the wheats and maintain the dry lands

Earth bag homes are even *earthquake resistant* and pest resistant. If done right, you can add a passive cooling system. A rocket mass heater can be added to allow for heating by using very little wood. You can burn the twigs and small dead branches from the land, thereby reducing the dry fuel load in the area.

Glass melts in forest fires too

Or maybe we should not be building in those areas at all, full stop. How many times are the taxpayers going to keep subsidizing rebuilding over the same areas? Isn't it interesting how renters never get any help at all? Yet apparently if you have a mortgage you get endless help, nobody checks if the mortgage is paid off. Renting is absolute slavery in the United States.

@@kitcoffey7194 also how do you think displacing people will help the problems of renting???

Then you can pay for it for us then. Like the things y’all say here you’d NEVER come here to our fire torn Areas with scars everywhere and say them to the face of the people who live here, to the children. You wanna be mad and blame someone, blame the corporations that have been super cutting forests for years here destroying the atmospheric rain cycles and at the same time not letting controlled fires happen , and the pollution the shipping companies in Northern California and mining that caused so much change to water tables. The residents are NOT where your ire should lie. Shame , be better

We would have to stop building everywhere. What about places highly prone to twisters, or floods. What about hurricanes, earthquakes, land slides, etc.? Every area of the US and the world have regionally specific high risk natural disaster threats. It’s twisters, where I live.

@@LafemmebearMusic I think the issue with California is sprawl. They need to build more dense walkable towns and discourage building new suburbs. Residents have fought against this.

Problem solved - easy-peasy! Probably only cost a couple dollars and be done by Friday. Oh what’s that? I’m sitting here today wondering if my town is going to burn up next

Housing is expensive enough. We need to not build in areas prone to fire, and maintain forests to prevent fires, AND Californians are going to have to discover this little thing called "density," that building apartment buildings in cities is actually not a bad thing, and a lot better than disrupting the woods. We need affordable housing and this isn't it.

Michigan State University had a few Quonset buildings still in use until early 80's (student radio station was in one WKAR)

@@dianayount2122 That is interesting ! They used them at the University of North Dakota for quite a few years, as well. Hopefully, the Quonsets were warm enough in the sub-zero snowy winters !

They called them The Barracks at Penn State....

Insulation inside the frame will block Sun heat .

Heat from a nearby fire.

The heat that I'm talking about is when a fire rolls through, the heat from that fire itself can cause significant damage. It's just not the flames. I've seen where a gun safe was involved in a fire. The fire itself didn't cause damage to the safe, but the heat from it melted all of the guns inside.

maybe we should not be using taxpayer money to build in fire prone areas over and over. you know, the whole prevention is worth a pound of cure thing. Tell millions and millions of renters that they are entitled to a house. These people in Paradise are not entitled to a house, sorry it's difficult but a lot of people move every year, and maybe building on a fire prone area is not the smartest.

Nope.

Which is why you wouldn't have trees and brush right up against the building.

Quonset huts are ugly. Like to see something with the round roof & more vertical walls. Love the fireproof construction concept though.

Exactly! Think about all the aluminum exterior mobilehomes that melted. Noncombustible isn't enough.

Pumicecrete is by far the best building material on the planet Pumicecrete is fireproof termite proof rust rot and mold proof and has a high R value and good sound attenuation solid poured walls means no critters can live in your walls

@@davemarr7743 sounds like you have the gift Dave. Sketch Up?

You were not wrong. The cost is $300 per foot to build. 3 times more than a normal house.

The guard rails never go up until after a few ppl die on the corner.

...and let's never do anything for renters like permanently end eviction or give rental subsidies or vote in real rent control. Let's just do nothing for renters ever. Renters are 1/3 of households, people. Not everyone will ever have a mortgage and maybe renting could be less like slavery... because not having a mortgage is not a crime.

Concerns would be: contaminating water table, construction/deconstruction, and off gassing (if any).

@@cheryld7713 The person you replied to was referring to "off gassing" possibilities that could cause major health problems while living in the structure. But the outdoor concerns you mentioned are good points. I would think that the materials have been approved by the Government, but who knows? Americans lost millions of dollars by using Chinese drywall. How that slipped by government regulations, I'll never know. But the lesson to learn "be wary of any new building material innovations."

It appears that the main reason these won't burn is that almost the entire frame work is made of metal. The roof is metal, the wall studs are metal. the wall sheathing is metal. I couldn't tell for sure but I would guess the widow frames are all metal too. I believe we already use insulation that is resistant to fire so I don't see just offhand that this is any more of a chemical issue than most other homes.

This is most likely a product called Hardiboard, a fiber reinforced concrete board. Is available as siding or 4 x 8 sheets. It is heavy, and the framing needs to be strong enough to support the weight. I imagine with prolonged high temperatures thermal expansion might cause it to snap off fasteners. Or weaken the steel framing to the point of failure, but that could only happen if a huge fuel load was right up against the building. Best practices include removing all flammable material anywhere near the exterior, and any trees tall enough to land on the structure when they fall. The energy used in manufacturing and the related CO2 production are the most serious health threats. It's not toxic, even when heated, no toxic gases are released. However all human and animals still need to be evacuated during a fire event. It could become a huge oven, and air quality will be very bad, toxic bad from the wildfire.

@anahata2009 what about all the chemicals in the materials used in a normal home? What about all the chemicals in the food you consume?

2:07 Story was about a town rising from the ashes, not an infomercial for the home builder. A few keystrokes will lead you to the answers in a matter of seconds.

I don't know what they're using for sheathing here, but it looks like the siding is fiber cement, which is fire resistant, as are the steel studs. Nothing is fireproof. This house would survive many fires but if there's enough heat for enough time, the inside will eventually burn.

According to the story, most houses that burn catch embers on window frames or between roof shingles. Point is, these houses don't have those weaknesses

Yes! I make my own charcoal and thought… omg that hut is an giant oven!

Looks like steel frames, so probably earthquake resistant.

Who can afford these? No one. Time to do ANYTHING for RENTERS who are 1/3 of households.

Just don't expect us taxpayers to keep rebuilding your house because you choose to place it in a fire hazard area, meanwhile we can't do anything for overburdened renters who are 1/3 of households and paying more than half their income in rent. Nothing to be done, nothing to see here.

@@kitcoffey7194 you are oversimplifying and deeply ignoring that disasters like this come in many forms and are happening everywhere now. Again I ask where would all these people including me go? Are we coming to live with you???? You’d see people displaced because of your anger but don’t say where they should go?

They'd crumble in an earthquake.

@@LL-yy6mn This fire resistant design will fold in an earthquake.

My childhood house is tornado proof when I move out I plan to make sure my house is the same

1. No wood-fire gets hot enough to 'melt metal', especially outside of a human furnace designed specifically for such a purpose. Scorched and embrittled? Yes. Red-hot and pliable? Maybe. 'Molten'? No. 2. There is a LOT of other stuff you can do to Metal / Quonset houses to completely eliminate this problem: Coat the outside with a mixture of Perlite and lightly-mixed Portland Cement.... 8-inchk layer should do it. INCREDIBLE insulation, and GENUINELY fireproof. Regardless, 10000x better than a toxic matchstick-timber-and-drywall house. Lighter, more healthy (mold, bugs), less waste, 100% recyclable, easier to build. And yes, the drought needs to be addressed too.