7 Responses to “fire on Oakwood”

1. posted by sarah at August 2, 2007 9:37 pm :
   

   i have never seen siding melted like that…

2. posted by john_m at August 2, 2007 10:03 pm :
   

   nbc12 has a video interview with Evelyn Twyman, one of the residents of the house. “While this home, which she shares with her 96 year old mother, is likely a total loss, she says that’s nothing compared to being alive.” Saved by a smoke detector!

3. posted by hmmm at August 3, 2007 11:02 am :
   

   Another reason to not use vinyl siding besides the obvious ugly factor is that it is very hard to extinguish when it catches fires and the fumes are highly toxic.

4. posted by zack at August 5, 2007 7:28 pm :
   

   Hmmmmm, based on that, I shouldn’t have a sofa either. When the materials used in the average sofa burn, it releases more than 1000 chemical compounds……any one of which are deadly.

5. posted by hmmm at August 6, 2007 10:48 am :
   

   Zack:

   Your couch isn’t wrapped around your entire house.

6. posted by Laura Daab at August 7, 2007 10:10 pm :
   

   Vinyl siding, or for that matter any PVC product is the most hazardous consumer product around today. It contains huge amounts of dioxin and toxic forms of chloride. It’s entire life cycle is a toxic waste dump from the time it is produced to the time that it either burns in a house fire or is “disposed”of.

   If you live near a vinyl sided home and it catches fire, get the hell out of there. The Firefighters of American say that a house fire with vinyl siding can cause permanent lung disease and cancer just by inhaling the fumes (if it doesn’t kill you right then and there).

   I can only say that one of the biggest triumphs of getting our O&H designation in Church Hill North was the banishment of such a horrible material.

   Check out the documentary “Blue Vinyl.” It’s showing this month on the Sundance Channel and it’s website is http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/bv.html
   if you want to order a copy.

   It’s worth a look.

7. posted by john_m at August 9, 2007 8:41 pm :
   

   This house has been torn down.

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