Скачать или смотреть People Mocked His Fire Proof Cabin Roof — Then the Lightning Set the Forest Ablaze

When a former sawmill worker layered his cabin roof with soaked animal hides beneath cedar slabs, his neighbors complained it smelled like a tannery and mocked his paranoid over-preparation. But when lightning struck during a dry summer storm and set the forest ablaze, wind-carried embers rained down on the settlement like deadly confetti, igniting traditional shingled roofs in seconds. His strange, smelly roof resisted the burning debris that destroyed cabins all around him, proving that his fire-proof layering was far more effective than anything his neighbors had built. What seemed like eccentric overkill became the difference between having a home and watching it burn to ash, a technique borrowed from forestry-camp instructions that understood embers, not flames, were responsible for most frontier fire devastation.