[GSBN] Fwd: Re: re: Colorado SB fire

[Mark Piepkorn]

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>Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:52:19 -0000
>From: "mannalua" <mannalua at yahoo.com>
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>I live in Boulder County. As a matter of fact, I live on the same 
>road. And - even closer, I live on the same property. In fact, I'm 
>the mother of the man who owned the house. My straw bale house is 
>400 ft. away from his.
>
>Most of the newspaper articles were wrong about most of the facts in 
>the case. The house was 2000 sq.ft. and the workshop was 800 sq.ft. 
>Out of that, only 450sq.ft. was straw bale. The straw bale section 
>lasted far longer than the stick frame which went up like a torch.In 
>fact, the firefighters finally knocked over the walls to help the 
>process along.
>
>My son was not in the crawl space. The mappgas torch had a new valve 
>on it that malfunctioned. The flame went out and gas continued to 
>flow. The nearby water heater clicked on and the house went up. It 
>took about fifteen minutes for the stick frame to burn, and another 
>fifteen minutes for the workshop to burn. The straw bale burned 
>slowly for hours.
>
>We LOVE straw bale!
>Lua