[Yaelle]

Thanks. I would hope that the way the valley is so built up there wouldn't be enough brush to burn as much. Or do homes burn just as easily as brush? I don't know.

[PhiKapMom]

They said on KTLA because this was a relatively new area with the houses built under the new fire regulations and the brush cleared from around the houses, it was much better and easier to save.

If I had a shake roof on my house and lived near one of the Canyons, it would be replaced ASAP. We bought a house with a tile roof in CA for that reason -- refused to look at houses with shake roofs in CA and for that fact, anywhere we have lived after seeing how fast embers can take out a house with a shake roof.