Forest Fires?

If your home is in the middle of a wildfire, and you couldn't get out, how would you protect yourself and your home?

Answer:
More than likely, you will not survive unless you can leave the home and seek shelter somehow. If the headfire has reached you, it may consume the oxygen around you, suffocating you. It will draw the air out of you, and any superheated air you intake will put you into respiratory arrest. However, if you are beseiged by a flank of the fire, it may burn low enough or fast enough for you to have a chance of survival. In this case, if you could find an area void of fuels (grass, brush) and protect yourself with a shield of some kind (picturing an old-time bathtub), then you may survive. The key is to have your body on the ground, breathing in air directly at ground level.

As far as the house, homes rarely stand a chance against wildfire unless mitigation efforts are in place (Firewise) or firefighters are defending your home, it will likely fall victim to the fire.

I have provided some links below to help you get started on mitigating your home from wildland fires.
Get in the bath tub and cover it up with something fireproof. Either way your dead. Are you asking this question becuse your house is surrounded by a fire.
that would be a pretty bad situation, id probably soak everything in water and hide in my room while I called the fire department, then if things got too bad Id try to escape through the roof or chimmeny and use some sort of makeshift hanglider to escape past the flames
wow! i dont know pray alot!soak everything with a garden hose cut some trees down if you have time! this is tough one!

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