Best advice is to get yourself to a safe place immediately. Fire spreads in many ways. Keeping combustible materials and things away from the building cannot protect it from wind-carried embers which are hot enough to start a new fire.
Wood burns at a surprisingly low temperature. That’s why and how a simple match can ignite wood but paper ignites at an even lower temperature. Even worse is anything that contains flammable liquid like paint thinner or even nail polish remover.
Take no chances with a fire. Leaving is the only safe way to avoid burns from flying embers.
Look at the photo’s of the burned out places. The lead in car batteries is visible flowing in the streets.
Even if you build an underground bunker to stay in until the fire burns itself out, you need to breathe but the air around a fire has little or no oxygen so breathing is not just a problem, it’s impossible. So, go… Just leave for a safer place.
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