[Stoves] Straw roofs and fires

[Josh Kearns]

Certainly it's a concern. Last February there was a very destructive fire
that spread through Umpiem refugee camp in Thailand near where we work:

http://karennews.org/2012/02/breaking-news-fire-at-umpiem-mai-refugee-camp-destroys-1000-houses.html/

I'm not sure if they ever traced the cause, but the thatch-leaf roofs and
close proximity of houses led to the rapid spread of the fire.

Josh



On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Frank Shields <frank at compostlab.com>wrote:

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> Lets see -  we have an open fire on the floor where the smoke goes up and
> through a straw roof. Where the soot and tars condense and collect coating
> the straw with an oily like highly flammable coating. There must be roof
> fires that are very dangerous and fast burning and where flaming straw
> comes falling down. Do they happen? And when they do I would think the
> sparks would start other roofs on fire and the entire village would go up
> in smoke. And then the scarcity of available water to put them out. I would
> think this would be a huge problem but no one ever mentions about the
> fires.   ****
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-- 
Josh Kearns
PhD Candidate
Environmental Engineering
Engineering for Developing Communities
University of Colorado-Boulder

Director of Science
Aqueous Solutions
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