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Speaker 2: home all right, we are, yes, continuing our coverage here
Speaker 2: at KFI of the California wildfires here in a Los
Speaker 2: Angeles area. We're taking a particular perspective. I want to
Speaker 2: talk to you about where we go from here? Where
Speaker 2: do we go from here? So let me ask this
Speaker 2: question or pose this thought as it were. Let me
Speaker 2: pull up my note here. If you've lost your home
Speaker 2: or business in these wildfires, what are the steps? Where
Speaker 2: do you go? Okay? Well, obviously, as I said before
Speaker 2: the break, the immediate concerns have to be addressed. You've
Speaker 2: got to get out, you've got to get safe, you've
Speaker 2: got to get to yourself temporary relocated. You need to
Speaker 2: get fed, you need medical attention if necessary, and you
Speaker 2: need to breathe and take a breath. And that's happening
Speaker 2: all over the area right now. And that's what these
Speaker 2: volunteer organizations and outposts, it's what the Red Cross, it's
Speaker 2: what FEMA is here to help with. In the short term.
Speaker 2: You need to be on the FEMA list. You need
Speaker 2: to contact FEMA and make sure that they're aware of
Speaker 2: you and your property, especially if it has been destroyed,
Speaker 2: so know that you're a part of that and get
Speaker 2: on that list next and they'll offer you some invaluable
Speaker 2: advice as well. Next step got to call your insurance company. Now,
Speaker 2: it doesn't have to be a long drawn out process
Speaker 2: right now, it's going to be. It is going to be. Unfortunately.
Speaker 2: We'll talk more on that, but for now, you need
Speaker 2: to call your insurance company and you need to file
Speaker 2: a claim. And that process is it's like I said,
Speaker 2: it's going to be long and drawn out. But what
Speaker 2: if I need relieve right now, Dean? What can I expect? Well,
Speaker 2: here's the thing. If your house is has been completely
Speaker 2: destroyed or radically affected by this, and what's the difference. Well,
Speaker 2: you know you've heard some stories of people are like,
Speaker 2: I can't believe my house survived. You know, it's the
Speaker 2: only house standing in a two block radius, but my
Speaker 2: house was, for whatever reason, untouched. There are some of
Speaker 2: those stories dotted across you know, the great swath that
Speaker 2: the fire has taken, or these fires have taken. But
Speaker 2: that doesn't put them in an optimal situation either. If
Speaker 2: the entire neighborhood is burned down around you, you shouldn't
Speaker 2: be in that house. You're going to be surrounded by
Speaker 2: toxic ash. And debris from not just you know, wildfire
Speaker 2: burning is one thing. Homes burning with chemicals and being
Speaker 2: released and now being exposed to the atmosphere around you.
Speaker 2: Just because your house has been skipped by a fire
Speaker 2: does not mean that house should be inhabited in most cases,
Speaker 2: Also the local utilities, the infrastructure.
Speaker 1: Is there even water coming to the property?
Speaker 2: Is that water pottible at this point or does it
Speaker 2: need to be boiled or is there just a no
Speaker 2: boiled to just get out until we resolve it. As situations,
Speaker 2: so just because a property survives and the other outlook
Speaker 2: on that, by the way, is that okay? So your
Speaker 2: house is still standing, smoke damage in that house, no doubt,
Speaker 2: when every other house around you has burnt down. Also,
Speaker 2: in the months to come, you're going to be in
Speaker 2: a very lonely place. You're going to be surrounded by
Speaker 2: a massive cleanup activity, and then you'll be surround you'll
Speaker 2: find yourself in the middle of a massive reconstruction. So
Speaker 2: the peace and quiet of your days is going to
Speaker 2: be replaced with the rebuilding around you, if in fact,
Speaker 2: there is rebuilding around you. So there are concerns across
Speaker 2: the board. That is the lesson to take away whether
Speaker 2: a house is standing or whether a house has been destroyed.
Speaker 2: If your house, though, has been completely destroyed in the
Speaker 2: event that resulted in a state of emergency being declared
Speaker 2: in California, which these fires obviously have been, then your
Speaker 2: insurance company here me Now, your insurance company is required
Speaker 2: to immediately pay you a minimum of one third of
Speaker 2: the estimated value of your personal belongings known as contents,
Speaker 2: and a minimum of four months worth of rent for
Speaker 2: the local area in which you live. This is the
Speaker 2: most important immediate first step part of relief for you now,
Speaker 2: since you are out of your home, and if your
Speaker 2: home no longer is okay, the reason to file a
Speaker 2: claim immediately is to take advantage of those factors so
Speaker 2: that you can get yourself first priority, settled and relocated,
Speaker 2: because I guarantee you there will even if the plan
Speaker 2: is to rebuild, there will be no getting back to
Speaker 2: that property for months and months ahead. Okay, that is
Speaker 2: just simply the harsh reality of that. And so first
Speaker 2: priority finding a place to settle in, to relocate, to breathe,
Speaker 2: to rest, and then to take further steps. And we'll
Speaker 2: talk about those further steps right on the other side.
Speaker 2: KFI in charp the house whisper at your service.
Speaker 1: Good Saturday morning to you.
Speaker 2: I hope it is a better Saturday morning for you
Speaker 2: than for many who have been affected by these fires
Speaker 2: in the greater Los Angeles area. Here we are here
Speaker 2: covering that, of course, with the KFI twenty four hour
Speaker 2: news room, Ailing Gonzalez is on hand, taking the tip
Speaker 2: of the spear and reporting all of the updates as
Speaker 2: we go, So for more information, stay tuned. We're the
Speaker 2: place to be, We're the place to listen to it.
Speaker 2: What am I doing on the show today, specifically in
Speaker 2: regards to these fires today and tomorrow, I'm trying to
Speaker 2: address some of the larger questions, none of the politics,
Speaker 2: none of the criticisms. I'm talking about you and your home,
Speaker 2: and for those of you who have not fortunately been
Speaker 2: affected by these fires, we will be discussing again how
Speaker 2: to fire harden your home, what are the best short
Speaker 2: term and long term things to do. But I'm also
Speaker 2: speaking to those who have been affected by a natural disaster,
Speaker 2: and if you're listening to us nationwide, these principles apply
Speaker 2: regardless of the nature of the natural disaster, but specifically
Speaker 2: here in southern California. The fires that affect have affected
Speaker 2: very much the last week and are going to affect
Speaker 2: many many lives for months and years to come as
Speaker 2: a result. Now, I was just saying this, and I
Speaker 2: want to finish this thought and then we're going to
Speaker 2: go to the phones because we've got some calls that
Speaker 2: I want to take related to the fire. I had
Speaker 2: mentioned to you that after you're safe, after you're out
Speaker 2: of the zone, after health, immediate can concerns are taken
Speaker 2: care of, you know, food, shelter and clothing, that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff. Getting resettled is going to be really, really
Speaker 2: key because it's a long road ahead to rebuild. If
Speaker 2: your house I'm going to repeat this has been completely
Speaker 2: destroyed in an event that is a State of California
Speaker 2: emergency declaration event like this one is, then your insurance
Speaker 2: company is required to immediately pay you a minimum of
Speaker 2: a third of the estimated value of your personal belongings
Speaker 2: also known as your contents, and a minimum of four
Speaker 2: months worth of rent for the local area in which
Speaker 2: you live. And yeah, those payments are required of the
Speaker 2: insurance company whether an adjuster has inspected the home or not.
Speaker 2: And so don't be sitting there thinking in ignorance. Well, okay,
Speaker 2: that's great, but what do I do now, because no
Speaker 2: one's allowed in the neighborhood where house burned out, So
Speaker 2: an insurance adjuster can't get in there and inspect it
Speaker 2: and start my claim. No, no, you start your claim
Speaker 2: with the insurance company, and if your home has been
Speaker 2: destroyed in this event, then you are entitled to that
Speaker 2: whether or not an adjuster has inspected your home at
Speaker 2: the moment. You can also ask your insurance provider for
Speaker 2: cash advances for living expenses such as renting furniture, and
Speaker 2: if you didn't know, there are companies that can come
Speaker 2: to your temporary home furnish it right down to the
Speaker 2: towels and sheets and kitchen utensils if necessary. There is
Speaker 2: next steps, but our next step right now is to
Speaker 2: see if we can take a couple of calls. I
Speaker 2: want to talk to Jeannette. Hey, Jeannette, welcome home.
Speaker 3: Hi Dean.
Speaker 4: I live in the foothills in North Fantana. Santa Anna's
Speaker 4: beautiful hill. But now I look at it and I
Speaker 4: see fuel. A month or so ago, you were talking
Speaker 4: about fire windows. I'm wondering if you can give a
Speaker 4: list or put on your on your website a list
Speaker 4: of reputable companies that I can get estimates from because
Speaker 4: they are expensive, but I'm looking at it as an
Speaker 4: investment to protect the house.
Speaker 2: Okay, So let me respond to that, and I'm not
Speaker 2: I won't publish a list. And the reason is Jeannette,
Speaker 2: because every major window manufacturer makes fire windows. But let
Speaker 2: me explain what this is, okay, A fire rated window. Okay,
Speaker 2: So when you say, when you come to a window
Speaker 2: manufacturer and say I need fire windows because I live
Speaker 2: in a wildlife urban interface and I'm you know, required
Speaker 2: or I'm volunteering to do this for my home.
Speaker 1: So what this is.
Speaker 2: Essentially, the difference between a fire rated window and a
Speaker 2: standard window is the glass.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: The lass is a tempered glass in a fire rated
Speaker 2: window versus standard annealed glass. It's not about the frame,
Speaker 2: it's not about the sashes, it's not about it's not
Speaker 2: about anything else. It is about the glass. A large
Speaker 2: proportion of property damage that occurs in a house, as
Speaker 2: far as the way a fire enters a home, the
Speaker 2: primary the two primary methods by which a fire enters
Speaker 2: a home are embers. As we've talked about exhaustively, and
Speaker 2: will continue to here on the program. Embers getting into
Speaker 2: attics through vents and so on. But window openings, the
Speaker 2: penetrations in our home, the holes in our walls, essentially
Speaker 2: is the next primary way that a fire enters. Now
Speaker 2: that's not embers. What that is is when the fire
Speaker 2: line itself, when the fire actually reaches the the you know,
Speaker 2: the the foot of our walls. Here is what happens.
Speaker 2: Annealed glass. And I won't get into the process by
Speaker 2: which glass is made, but annealed glass is standard window glass.
Speaker 2: It's great, it's super and it does what it's supposed
Speaker 2: to do. But annealed glass is manufactured at a relatively
Speaker 2: in terms of glass low temperature. And as a result,
Speaker 2: what happens is if you were to take annealed glass
Speaker 2: and warm it up uniformly from all sides, then annealed
Speaker 2: glass can actually put up with a tremendous amount of heat. Okay,
Speaker 2: but that's not what happens. The fire licks up against
Speaker 2: your house and suddenly the temperatures on the outside of
Speaker 2: that pane of glass are over one thousand degrees and
Speaker 2: the temperature on the inside of that pane of glass
Speaker 2: is you know, a cool seventy two degrees inside conditioned home.
Speaker 2: It is that differential which causes that pane of glass
Speaker 2: to expand unevenly on the outside and not expand on
Speaker 2: the inside surface and therefore shatter and crack. Once that
Speaker 2: cracks and shatters, then all of a sudden, the flames
Speaker 2: have an open doorway to actually enter the home. So
Speaker 2: fire rated windows are standard windows. They look no different
Speaker 2: than any other window or door in the house. Nobody
Speaker 2: has to worry about, well, how is that going to
Speaker 2: mess up the look of my house? There is no difference.
Speaker 2: It is an additional expense. And the additional expense is
Speaker 2: that the glass in a fire rated window is tempered glass.
Speaker 2: Tempered glass has been heated and manufactured at thousands a
Speaker 2: plural of degree, you know, about five thousand degrees. Tempered
Speaker 2: glass can handle the temperature differential between the coolness of
Speaker 2: the inside of your home and the extreme heat from
Speaker 2: fire on the outside of your home and will not
Speaker 2: shatter and therefore will not open a doorway into or
Speaker 2: you know, literally a window into your home.
Speaker 1: If you have a sliding glass door, a sliding glass.
Speaker 2: Door is tempered glass by code because every fenestration, every
Speaker 2: window that dips lower that has glass below in California.
Speaker 2: Actually this is I believe the National Building goes. Any
Speaker 2: glass that comes closer to the floor than eighteen inches
Speaker 2: okay below eighteen inches or the floor has to be
Speaker 2: whether no matter what fire zone you live, and has
Speaker 2: to be tempered because now it's in it's not fire
Speaker 2: that we're worried about, but it's in the kickzone, right,
Speaker 2: it's in a place where somebody can go through it.
Speaker 2: So it has to be super strong tempered glass. So
Speaker 2: fire windows, Jeanette, it's such a good question. I'm so
Speaker 2: glad you asked it. Fire windows are windows with tempered glass,
Speaker 2: not the anneal glass. That's the additional expense. Every major manufacturer,
Speaker 2: you know, Anderson, Marvin mill Guard, I mean, just Pella.
Speaker 2: You just go down the list, every major manufacturer of windows,
Speaker 2: of reputable, high quality windows will make you a tempered
Speaker 2: glass version of the window that you need, and that
Speaker 2: is by definition, a fire rated window.
Speaker 4: Okay. So I'll just look at the ones that I'm
Speaker 4: comfortable with, you know, national name brands, and come and
Speaker 4: have them, come give me estimates and choose some of them,
Speaker 4: and then I'll be fine. Exactly exactly, Okay, awesome, Thank
Speaker 4: you so much. Thank you, thank you listen to you
Speaker 4: every week. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much, Jeanette for your support and
Speaker 2: thanks for that great question. You just helped a lot
Speaker 2: a lot of people understand what they need to do
Speaker 2: in order to help fire harden their homes. All right,
Speaker 2: more when we return your Home with Dean Sharp, the
Speaker 2: House Whisper on a very fire smoky weekend here in
Speaker 2: southern California.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: CAMFI AM six forty live streaming, and HD everywhere on
Speaker 2: the iHeart Radio app. You are Home with Dean Sharp,
Speaker 2: the House Whisper. We are continuing kfi's coverage of these
Speaker 2: fires this morning. Specifically, I am talking to you about
Speaker 2: things related to you, your home, your displacement if your
Speaker 2: home was destroyed or radically affected by the fires. Of course,
Speaker 2: from my expert perspective in terms of home design and
Speaker 2: home building and the entire process. Tomorrow's show, I Will
Speaker 2: let you know, will be very very much focused on
Speaker 2: again reviewing what it takes to fire hard and a home,
Speaker 2: but also what are these next steps in terms of
Speaker 2: insurance claims? And the rebuilding process. When an entire neighborhood
Speaker 2: and a regional infrastructure has been affected, you're not going
Speaker 2: to want to miss that. And of course we will
Speaker 2: be giving you ongoing live updates as we do with
Speaker 2: Eileen Gonzalez at the tip of the spear here in
Speaker 2: the twenty four hour newsroom here at KFI. I want
Speaker 2: to take at least another call if we can. I
Speaker 2: don't have a lot of time. I've been playing a
Speaker 2: little fast and loose with our segment times here just
Speaker 2: in order to get all the information you need to you.
Speaker 2: But let's talk to Richard. Hey, Richard, welcome home, Good morning,
Speaker 2: Good morning sir.
Speaker 1: How can I help Youah?
Speaker 3: I called in just to see if you needed any
Speaker 3: background on how resident for fire systems are designed and
Speaker 3: why they come up shorts.
Speaker 1: Okay, well yeah, give us a quick overview.
Speaker 3: Well, essentially, we design our systems to put out a
Speaker 3: large fire on a single commercial building or a few
Speaker 3: residential buildings, and we size the pipes to bring the
Speaker 3: fireflows to that location at a certain velocity, and then
Speaker 3: when we look at the reservoir sizing, we look at
Speaker 3: how long we're going to be pulling water at a
Speaker 3: fireflow rate, and it's typically for a very large building
Speaker 3: about four hours. So the reservoirs are sized for the
Speaker 3: four hour fireflow plus some capacity for every day demands
Speaker 3: of the water system. So we have so we have
Speaker 3: a limited amount of reservoir water available based on the
Speaker 3: current state of.
Speaker 2: Design, right, which has obviously been tested and brought to
Speaker 2: its knees by these fires, specifically like the Palisades Fire.
Speaker 2: Of course, there was already issues about low water pressure
Speaker 2: during some of those fights, and it was really just
Speaker 2: literally the perfect storm. The speed of the fire, the
Speaker 2: rate of the fire, the amount of structures that had
Speaker 2: to be defended and that were on fire, broken pipelines,
Speaker 2: compromised lines, all at the same time, too much water
Speaker 2: being pulled out of the system to fight too many
Speaker 2: fronts at in too many locations, just literally a perfect
Speaker 2: storm in which water became a very very limited resource
Speaker 2: during that fight. In your opinion, now you're a civil engineer, Richard, yes, sir,
Speaker 2: in your opinion, is this something that we need to
Speaker 2: take a serious look at upgrading. It's not like it's
Speaker 2: going to be a quick fix overnight. I mean we're
Speaker 2: talking about I would imagine hundreds of millions of dollars
Speaker 2: of infrastructure upgrade all across the Southland. If if we
Speaker 2: were to take this seriously, is that something that's likely
Speaker 2: to happen, and should it happens.
Speaker 3: There's more to it than that. I mean, the system
Speaker 3: that does well for what it's designed to do, and
Speaker 3: when we have a wildfire and several homes are involved,
Speaker 3: the expectation is that we're going to put air assets
Speaker 3: in the up to fight the wildfire, right and so
Speaker 3: when we're not able to do that, then there's obviously
Speaker 3: some problems. But the real where you could really make
Speaker 3: an impact is what you're going to be talking about tomorrow,
Speaker 3: where you make the homes defendable by using the windows
Speaker 3: that are appropriate, moving flammables away from the house, you know,
Speaker 3: getting rid of landscaping that is inducive to starting a fire,
Speaker 3: and and there's something else, but I've.
Speaker 1: Forgotten it, Richard.
Speaker 3: I think you're going to talk about it tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, my friend, and I really appreciate.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call, and I appreciate the insight and
Speaker 2: the support as well. So from a civil engineering perspective
Speaker 2: and from a a water systems designs perspective you know,
Speaker 2: you heard it right there, and something to consider everyone.
Speaker 2: The fact of the matter is that, you know, we
Speaker 2: could approach this from two different directions. You could build
Speaker 2: every house out of tissue paper and then as a result,
Speaker 2: pay billions of dollars to introduce a fire deterrent system
Speaker 2: in order to fast respond with you know, millions of
Speaker 2: gallons of water every time a tissue paper house gets ignited.
Speaker 2: Or or on the individual home level, you could simply
Speaker 2: fire harden a home that makes it more difficult for
Speaker 2: homes to burn and easier for fire services and the
Speaker 2: existing infrastructure to defend. There's probably some give in both directions,
Speaker 2: but absolutely in regards to our listeners and what we're
Speaker 2: here to talk about on an ongoing basis, You're absolutely right, Richard.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow we will continue to talk about how to fire
Speaker 2: harden your home, all right, when we come back. Thank you,
Speaker 2: Richard for the call. I so appreciate it. When we
Speaker 2: come back for our final segment here, I want to
Speaker 2: follow up something on Janette's call earlier about fire windows,
Speaker 2: something that I did not discuss with her. We answered
Speaker 2: her question thoroughly, but a lot of you are in
Speaker 2: situations where you're like you have an older home now
Speaker 2: and now, of course it's code code requirement that if
Speaker 2: you build new or you do a major remodel in
Speaker 2: a wildlife urban interface, if you're in a high fire
Speaker 2: risk zone, then at least the side of the house
Speaker 2: that faces the interface needs fire rated windows are they're
Speaker 2: required by code on new builds, major remodels and so on.
Speaker 2: But there is not a regulation that is twisting arms
Speaker 2: for people with existing homes who do not have fire
Speaker 2: rated windows pushed up against open spaces to have to
Speaker 2: do anything. And if you're like Jeannette and you're made
Speaker 2: the decision like I want to do this now, Jeannette
Speaker 2: is she's stepping up and doing you know, she's gonna
Speaker 2: get bids and she's going to change out her windows.
Speaker 2: Well that's great. What if you don't have the budget
Speaker 2: to do that, Well, I want to talk to you
Speaker 2: about what your options are and we'll do it right
Speaker 2: on the other side of the news in Sharp House
Speaker 2: with her welcome home. Thanks for spending this time with
Speaker 2: me this morning. It is a privilege. As always, I
Speaker 2: am glad that you are here. I'm literally glad that
Speaker 2: you are still here. If you live in southern California,
Speaker 2: UH and have been affected, which all of us have
Speaker 2: to some degree or another, by these wildfires that are still
Speaker 2: raging here. Hopefully in the next few hours and a
Speaker 2: couple of days before the wind events return, we can
Speaker 2: get a stronger handle on these fires, get them under control.
Speaker 2: Fingers crossed, and our thoughts and prayers go out to
Speaker 2: all of the firefighters out there who are helping us
Speaker 2: stay safe and who are giving their all to see
Speaker 2: it happen. Here on the program we have today and
Speaker 2: we will again tomorrow, be talking about fire hardening your
Speaker 2: home and also something that we have not talked a
Speaker 2: lot about in the past, and that is when everything
Speaker 2: is lost, where do you go from there? What are
Speaker 2: the next steps in terms of literally who to call
Speaker 2: and what to expect. Now, all so far I've shared
Speaker 2: with you FEMA Red Cross, these are first steps. These
Speaker 2: are immediate emergency first steps to get you and your
Speaker 2: family safe, get them fed, get them warm, and get
Speaker 2: you in a at least a temporary shelter. After that
Speaker 2: comes long term temporary, long term temporary meaning that you're
Speaker 2: not going to be going back to that home or
Speaker 2: thathborhood anytime soon. We've got to find you a place
Speaker 2: to be so life can go on for you while
Speaker 2: you are rebuilding or redirecting, or deciding where to go
Speaker 2: from there. Filing an insurance claim is crucial asap because
Speaker 2: of the emergency funds that are available, because of the
Speaker 2: funds that will be available for you for temporary housing
Speaker 2: and so on. And the only thing I'm going to
Speaker 2: add to that for today, and we'll go further tomorrow.
Speaker 2: The only thing I want to add for that today
Speaker 2: is start documenting everything soon as you get your feet
Speaker 2: under you, as so, as soon as you've taken a
Speaker 2: few breaths and gotten a decent night's sleep. Know this,
Speaker 2: Who in the family is the accountant, Who in the
Speaker 2: family is the court reporter? Who is the documentarian in
Speaker 2: the family. In my family, that would be this buddy
Speaker 2: sitting across the table from me if we were in
Speaker 2: this situation. It is critical start documenting everything. Start a
Speaker 2: recovery diary, okay. Take detailed notes on who you talk
Speaker 2: to and when, what was their number, what are the
Speaker 2: numbers that you called, what was said? Keep your paperwork organized,
Speaker 2: Take photos, keep receipts, hotel bills, pet boarding receipts, so
Speaker 2: that you can have these things easily accessible. If there
Speaker 2: is a moment in human history in which that cell
Speaker 2: phone in your pocket is of value to you, of
Speaker 2: digital photography is value to you, then this is it. Okay,
Speaker 2: keep your receipts, but also just take photos of everything
Speaker 2: so you have got access to it, quick access to
Speaker 2: it when you need it. More on exactly why and
Speaker 2: how that all plays in into tomorrow's show as we
Speaker 2: talk about the insurance game and the insurance process and
Speaker 2: what that's going to mean to your home. So I
Speaker 2: hope that is a value to you. Also, I want
Speaker 2: to just tack on I promised before the break follow
Speaker 2: up to Janette's call about fire rated windows. What if
Speaker 2: you want to protect your home better but you can't
Speaker 2: afford fire rated windows right now on the backside of
Speaker 2: your house. Well, it's very simple. I want you to
Speaker 2: look into fire rated window films. Fire rated window films
Speaker 2: like you know, like the kind of film that you
Speaker 2: put on a window, not a movie, a film like
Speaker 2: window tinting. Okay, Now they don't need to be tinted.
Speaker 2: They can be they can be reflected, they can be darkening,
Speaker 2: but they don't. They could be perfectly clear, but three M,
Speaker 2: as a perfect example, makes a whole series what we
Speaker 2: call class aided class A rated fire films, which means
Speaker 2: they can hold back fire for more than an hour. Okay,
Speaker 2: and fire line move very fast. That's about all you need.
Speaker 2: But the whole point is this, Like I was explaining
Speaker 2: to Jeanette, the problem with a window in a fire
Speaker 2: standard and ealed glass is that the imbalance of cool
Speaker 2: on the inside and heat on the outside will cause
Speaker 2: the glass to shatter and therefore the flames now of
Speaker 2: a direct path into the house. A fire rated film
Speaker 2: will not keep the glass from breaking. It will, but
Speaker 2: the fire rated film will hold those shattered pieces of
Speaker 2: glass together instead of having them fall out of the opening,
Speaker 2: and it'll keep the opening sealed up. And that's the
Speaker 2: key that as yet it's not as good as tempered glass,
Speaker 2: but a fire rated film can save your house far
Speaker 2: far less expensive.
Speaker 1: Three M makes a whole slew.
Speaker 2: Of them, and there are a lot of places in
Speaker 2: southern California where you can have them ordered and installed
Speaker 2: for you very quickly, at much less expense than replacing windows.
Speaker 2: Consider that, pond that and join me right back here
Speaker 2: tomorrow morning at nine o'clock as we continue our discussion
Speaker 2: about what next when it comes to wildfire devastation. Until then,
Speaker 2: my friend, stay safe and get out there and get
Speaker 2: busy building yourself a beautiful life.
Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: This has been Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
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