So your models survived the fire?

More or less. Everything that was in the closets (up high, not on the floor) survived, which is the strange thing.

Oh well that's probably because of the smoke is forcing all the oxygen towards the ground that the flames just smother themselves.

More like the fire department built an indoor swimming pool.

Oh water damage. That's a problem if you have sensitive equipment that wasn't damaged by the fire or heat but they flood the room anyways to make sure that a flare up doesn't happen in there...sighs Sometimes I think they do that just to make your insurance company having to pay more for damages so that way when come tax season again the IRS hits your tax return for the costs of the coverage that your insurance company had to pay for the fire.

Best solution to that problem... CONCERT! SINDERBLOCKS! GRANITE! that stuff is fire resistant so why don't home owners build a house out of those building materials. Look at the things that the Romans, Mayan, Greeks, and the Egyptians built out of stone. HECK The Romans had figured out a way to make concrete that could harden when it was underwater when they just added pig's blood to the sand volcanic ash and aggregate mix when they were making concret stones to build a harbor for King Herod. And it got stronger the longer it was in water. And they even knew how to built brick buildings that could survive earthquakes by just turning the bricks made from a volcanic rock on one of it corner edges.

Then there's electronics. It didn't matter to be honest. No matter what you build a home out of, it's the electronics that are most affected. Fortune favored me, apparently, in that some things were spared. But I am having to throw out old junk that no longer works.

Yep that is true since the only down side of concrete or cinder blocks is that they hamper a strong wifi connection. But there is this guy in Pensacola Florida who built his beach house out of concrete in the shape of a dome and it withstood a direct hit from Hurricane Ivan with only minor damage. While some of his neighbors lost their beach houses to the storm surge. Then there's this couple who bought a Minuteman missile silo that'd been decommissioned from the US Government back in ethe mid to late 1980's and converted it into a home to raise their kids in. And the reasoning as to why they did that. Well two words. Tornado Alley Yep a house built to withstand and survive a direct hit from a tornado, with all the added benefits of surviving the detention of a nuclear bomb nearby.

So why can't people get it through their thick heads that if you live somewhere really beautiful there has to be some hidden danger that comes with that beauty.