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Re:The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires by idiotsecant on Thursday February 08, 2024 @04:37PM (#39308084)
Houses are not airtight, even the absolute best, newest ones. The average house has a lot of air exchange with the outside world. It would not take long to be quite dead in the middle of a wildfire.
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Re:The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires by lazide on Thursday February 08, 2024 @08:17PM (#39310191)
Wildfires tend to move fast. Active fire in the vicinity of a home for even an hour is very unusual.

As long as fuel is kept a decent distance and the house is closed up (and doesn't catch on fire), you'd be fine. SCBA would make sure you didn't get any red eyes from the little smoke that would get in.

If you have bushes and trees right up against the structure (or are in a tinder dry forest in a fully involved canopy fire), then you're having a different kind of party of course.

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Re:The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires by devilbunny on Thursday February 08, 2024 @05:21PM (#39308589)
If you live somewhere that the risk of being overtaken by a wildfire is not more or less zero, buying a firefighter's SCBA regulator and tank is not a horrible idea.
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