{"id":30754,"date":"2025-01-17T16:15:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T16:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/it-was-built-for-this-how-design-helped-spare-some-homes-from-the-la-wildfires\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T16:15:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T16:15:23","slug":"it-was-built-for-this-how-design-helped-spare-some-homes-from-the-la-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/it-was-built-for-this-how-design-helped-spare-some-homes-from-the-la-wildfires\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was built for this\u2019: how design helped spare some homes from the LA wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As fires set LA ablaze, some houses are left standing amid ashes thanks to concrete walls, class A wood \u2013 and luck<\/p>\n<p>When last week\u2019s fires in Los Angeles set parts of the city ablaze, one viral <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChasenGreg\/status\/1877478755091767732\">image<\/a> was of a lone house in Pacific Palisades that was left standing while all of the homes around it were destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Architect Greg Chasen said luck was the main factor in the home\u2019s survival, but the brand-new <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Bm7247crWdM?si=iyBM-CHladA_6FTt\">build<\/a> had some design features that also helped: a vegetation-free zone around the yard fenced off by a solid concrete perimeter wall, a metal roof with a fire-resistant <a href=\"https:\/\/mpglobalproducts.com\/what-is-underlayment\/\">underlayment<\/a>, class A wood and a front-gabled design without multiple roof lines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/17\/la-houses-survived-fire\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As fires set LA ablaze, some houses are left standing amid ashes thanks to concrete walls, class A wood \u2013 and luck When last week\u2019s fires in Los Angeles set parts of the city ablaze, one viral image was of a lone house in Pacific Palisades that was left standing while all of the homes &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018It was built for this\u2019: how design helped spare some homes from the LA wildfires\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/it-was-built-for-this-how-design-helped-spare-some-homes-from-the-la-wildfires\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018It was built for this\u2019: how design helped spare some homes from the LA wildfires\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}