Home hardening means using fire-resistant building materials and landscaping ... fiber cement and specially treated wood. Windows: Dual-pane windows with one pane using tempered glass that won ...

PHOENIX — Now that it's almost spring, wildfire season is right around the corner. As many begin to prepare their homes for the increasing dangers, a local product is already protecting Arizona ...

"As rates of aerial fire retardant application have grown, likely so too have loadings of toxic metals released into the environment from their use, a trend which may intensify if wildfire ...

Trachsel uses trees like these to make furniture. "I just see all this wood around and I want to use it," he said. "I just started to really appreciate dead standing wood and how convenient it ...

The fire service said the fire was starting accidentally “by burning wood falling from a pizza oven and igniting the void between the basement and ground floor”. Chiltern Firehouse is a ...

CNET tested 14 fire pit models for all kinds of budgets and categories, including wood-burning, propane and smokeless options. Here’s how they stacked up. Fire pits aren't just for ambiance.

While 120 houses farther down the street had been transformed into piles of ashes, Chasen’s fire—resistant design had withstood the heat from the flames. The wildfires that ripped through L.A ...

As of January 15, 2025, eight of these homes are still standing, a testament to our good luck, yes, but also to the effectiveness of the fire-resistant design strategies we employ in our work.

Air tankers are dropping thousands of gallons of red flame retardant in the hills around Los Angeles as firefighters attempt to limit the devastation from multiple wildfires. Images of vivid red ...