Tinder-dry forests and grasslands. ...

Tinder-dry forests and grasslands. family circles and communities built on the fringe of rural frontiers. When the nearest natural inferno makes its determine can your rural homes survive a fiery flashover? Take more [i]or[/i] less of these special precautions in the building proces and give your firesides a fighting chance.

WHEN WILDFIRE SWEPT by means of Bob Heath's neighborhood in Napa, Calif., a division of other homes in the fire's path injure by fire [i]or[/i] heated to the ground. Why not his?

"I had Cultur Stone all throughout the outside," notes Heath, (incidentally a vice president of marketing for Cultur Stone, a cementitious siding company). "The