Waldo Canyon Fire stops at door of Mountain Shadows home

[DearAbby]

Parker was sure her home would go up in flames, along with many others.

"I was mourning my neighborhood," Parker said. "I was mourning the trails that we would walk on [and] the beauty, thinking it's not going be the same. It's not going look the same. I knew many houses were not going to survive."

But Parker's house did survive.

The family's entire back yard is black. The fire burned right up to the fence. A bush by their back door is charred and the back door is damaged. But, that's it.

"I think a fire fighter stopped it," Parker said. "There was the garden hose laying right there. I think it was incredible. It just sent chills up my spine, like wow, people you don't know. It just humbles you. And it is just so random. Why did your house survive when you see all the fire that goes right up to it and it made it?"



http://www.9news.com/news/article/276678/339/Waldo-Canyon-Fire-stops-at-door-of-Mountain-Shadows-home

[tularetom]

1. At least she didn't attribute her good fortune to some big bearded dude in the sky

Because that would royally piss off any of her neighbors who actually lost their homes.

She had the good sense to acknowledge the random nature of, well, nature.

[GoneOffShore]

4. Absolutely random.

Good for her.

[joshcryer]

2. Screenshot:

I can just see the firefighter seeing the flames on the back side of the house, running by, seeing the water hose, and putting out the fire, only to move on to the next. Just a wonderful story.

[DearAbby]

3. totally amazing

Can't thank these people enough, risking their own, to battle this. Heroes one and all.

[HereSince1628]

5. Interesting. Looks like the stucco protected the house...

clapboards or shingles would probably have ignited.

Looks to me like maybe an inadvertantly smart choice in fire country made the difference

[joshcryer]

6. That depends, stucco often has a wooden substrate.

Sure, the stucco itself won't ignite but the wooden substrate sure would. If the builders were even more stingy they could've used a styrofoam sheathing which would go up like a matchstick.

Either way that door was about to go up and the fire surely could've got inside the house. A fire fighter (or, another possibility, a timely sprinkler going off) likely saved it.

[HereSince1628]

7. Pretty hard to actually know what happened...

whatever it was I'm sure the homeowners are counting their blessings.