[rstrahan]

You cannot get an ‘intense’ fire from a mud-and-straw building. The straw is encased in the mud, and the wooden beams will burn, but slowly.

‘Gee, this impact does not fit my scenario, so I will find a way to discredit it.’

[BroJoeK]

rstrahan: "You cannot get an ‘intense’ fire from a mud-and-straw building.
The straw is encased in the mud, and the wooden beams will burn, but slowly."

You might want to consider some of the article's conclusions:

• "The composition of the scoria droplets was related to the local soil, not to soil from other continents, as one would expect from an intercontinental impact.

• "The texture of the droplets, thermodynamic modeling and other analyses showed the droplets were formed by short-lived heating events of modest temperatures, and not by the intense, high temperatures expected from a large impact event.

• "And in a key finding, the samples collected from archaeological sites spanned 3,000 years.
  'If there was one cosmic impact,' Thy said, 'they should be connected by one date and not a period of 3,000 years.'. "

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Yeah, but wouldn’t haloes home owners had a house full of wood furniture, fine draperies, lots of clothes, all combustible? ; >)

The hypothesis of mud/straw walls being combustible is just stupid. Maybe they were doing large scale burn-offs of field stubble post-harvest like is done today.