夏威夷大火中幸存的房子的主人透露了房子是如何被拯救的

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核心提示:      夏威夷红屋顶“奇迹之屋”的主人认为,增加新屋顶和修剪树叶帮助它在毁灭性的野火中幸存下来。  这座价值400万美

  

  

An aerial image shows a red roofed house that survived the fires surrounded by destroyed homes and buildings burned to the ground in the historic Lahaina in the aftermath of wildfires in western Maui in Lahaina, Hawaii on August 10, 2023. Embattled officials in Hawaii who have been criticized for the lack of warnings as a deadly wildfire ripped through a town insisted on August 16 that sounding emergency sirens would not have saved lives. At least 110 people died when the inferno levelled Lahaina last week on the island of Maui, with some residents not aware their town was at risk until they saw flames for themselves. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

  夏威夷红屋顶“奇迹之屋”的主人认为,增加新屋顶和修剪树叶帮助它在毁灭性的野火中幸存下来。

  这座价值400万美元的海滨别墅屹立在毛伊岛拉海纳附近的废墟中,毫发无损。

  它的主人多拉·阿特沃特·米利金(Dora Atwater Millikin)和她的丈夫达德利·朗·米利金三世(Dudley Long Millikin III)在大火席卷他们的社区之前,对房子和花园进行了一些翻新,烧毁了许多建筑,造成数十人死亡。

  阿特沃特·米利金女士向《洛杉矶时报》解释说,这些改变并不是为了防火,但最终似乎是为了达到这个目的。

  她说,她和丈夫把沥青屋顶换成了重型金属屋顶,并砍掉了房子周围的树叶,以减少白蚁蔓延的风险。

  阿特沃特·米利金女士说:“当所有这些(火灾)发生的时候,有六十二英寸长的木片着火了,几乎被风吹得漂浮在空中。”

  “它们会撞到人们的屋顶,如果是沥青屋顶,就会着火。否则,它们会从路上掉下来,点燃房子周围的树叶。”

  House on 271 Front St, Lahaina HI Before renovation The image has gone viral: The house, with its crisp white facade and cheerful red roof, appears untouched. Surrounding it are piles of scorched rubble left behind by the fast-moving fire that decimated Lahaina last week. The historic Front Street home was not the o<em></em>nly property to survive the fire. Entire subdivisions were spared as flames leapfrogged across the island. But the indelible image of the improbably unscathed house amid a backdro<em></em>p of devastation is so extreme that some have questio<em></em>ned whether the image was digitally altered. The situation is all too real, said Dora Atwater Millikin, who owns the house with her husband. ?We lost neighbors in this, and neighbors lost everything,? Atwater Millikin told The Times. But their home remains, she ////con<em></em>firm/i/i/i/ied. She?s still mulling over why. The couple, who was visiting family in Massachusetts when the fire started, had recently renovated the home, but not with the express goal of hardening it against flames. The 100-year-old property was o<em></em>nce a bookkeeper?s house for employees of the Pio<em></em>neer Mill Co., a sugar plantation that operated in Lahaina beginning in the mid-1800s, and the homeowners were seeking to restore some of the structure?s original features, she said.

  screenshot of Artist Dora Atwater Millikin discussing her painting philosophy. (From VIMEO. Please l<em></em>ink: https://vimeo.com/30854697) The image has gone viral: The house, with its crisp white facade and cheerful red roof, appears untouched. Surrounding it are piles of scorched rubble left behind by the fast-moving fire that decimated Lahaina last week. The historic Front Street home was not the o<em></em>nly property to survive the fire. Entire subdivisions were spared as flames leapfrogged across the island. But the indelible image of the improbably unscathed house amid a backdrop of devastation is so extreme that some have questio<em></em>ned whether the image was digitally altered. The situation is all too real, said Dora Atwater Millikin, who owns the house with her husband. ?We lost neighbors in this, and neighbors lost everything,? Atwater Millikin told The Times. But their home remains, she ////con<em></em>firm/i/i/i/ied. She?s still mulling over why. The couple, who was visiting family in Massachusetts when the fire started, had recently renovated the home, but not with the express goal of hardening it against flames. The 100-year-old property was o<em></em>nce a bookkeeper?s house for employees of the Pio<em></em>neer Mill Co., a sugar plantation that operated in Lahaina beginning in the mid-1800s, and the homeowners were seeking to restore some of the structure?s original features, she said.

  屋顶被认为是影响房屋可燃性的主要因素,因为屋顶的表面积最大,余烬可以落在屋顶上。

  8月8日火灾发生时,这对夫妇正在马萨诸塞州探亲。

  第二天,当局打电话给他们,说他们的房子幸免于难,从此被称为“奇迹之家”。

  阿特沃特·米利金和朗·米利金三世在毛伊岛生活了近10年,大约三年前买下了这栋房子。她是一位画家,而他是一位最近退休的投资组合经理。

  This photo provided by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources shows burnt areas in Lahaina on the Maui island, Hawaii, Friday, Aug. 11, 2023, following a wildfire. (Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources via AP)

  Wildfire wreckage is shown Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. The search of the wildfire wreckage on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Thursday revealed a wasteland of burned out homes and obliterated communities as firefighters battled the stubborn blaze making it the deadliest in the U.S. in recent years. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

  据《每日邮报》报道,到目前为止,岛上的死亡人数为115人,但官员们预计最终死亡人数将在500人左右。目前约有1000人失踪。

  拉海纳有2200多座建筑在大火中被毁。

  美国总统乔·拜登将于今天访问毛伊岛,此前一些人(主要是共和党人)对他在火灾后最初的公开沉默表示不满。

  当他开口说话时,他似乎一度忘记了这个岛的名字。

 
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