I have a number of friends who've lost their homes, shops, and businesses to fire. Luckily, no lives were lost. But the effects on these people has been very substantial. They lost a part of themselves when their places went up in smoke.
Older mobile homes, built before codes got more strict, were built amazingly easy to catch fire...maybe pre-1970 or so. A low income community near Veguita, New Mexico, where we have a tire house, has many older trailers and one burns relatively frequently.
They go up quite nicely, leaving charred frame steel and ash and little else....except the thousands of staples used to stick them together and release a toxic spew into the environment when they burn.
Older mobile homes, built before codes got more strict, were built amazingly easy to catch fire...maybe pre-1970 or so. A low income community near Veguita, New Mexico, where we have a tire house, has many older trailers and one burns relatively frequently.
They go up quite nicely, leaving charred frame steel and ash and little else....except the thousands of staples used to stick them together and release a toxic spew into the environment when they burn.