Found on another forum:
“What I don’t understand, and wish somebody could explain to me, is:
why (in the first video) do I see a house totally burned to the ground, but the white WOODEN picket fence in front of it is unscathed?
why are there row after row of scorched trees and damaged power poles-—but row after row of WOODEN mailbox posts still holding up their respective mailboxes, apparently totally undamaged?”
Hmmmm. Kind of goes with the picture you posted, doesn’t it?
The wildfires do that though ... like a tornado. The sad thing is that when somebody’s house is “spared”, it’s so smoke damaged and everything else that it’s worthless. It’s amazing to go through scorched areas and find some things unscathed. I can’t speak to anything in particular this time, but it’s just a general observation having grown up in these kind of So. Cal. fire zones.
Extremely high wind with fire. I saw places up close in Napa, house burned to ash and in-law place not 5 feet away the paint didn’t bubble on. Grape vines literally blow torched off at the ground level with the plants hanging unburnt from the wires, mid construction wood frame unburned while stone house adjacent burned...