Chances the cars will survive a fire if parked away from trees on the street? Options

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I know the answer is "maybe" depending upon 100s of variables but it may come to this with the fires.

I have more cars at the house than I can quickly relocate, first world problem to be sure.

I know we have a good number of members in this area - hope people are doing OK.

[Crudbud]

Take it from someone who just lived through this nightmare! At 2am I woke up in a sweat no power on Aug 16th LNU fire. Drove to towards the fire and saw a big orange glow raced back to our house to get the family out, the parrot and opened the shop (metal ag building) and fired up the 914 and had wife drive it to a friend's house I grabbed a couple momentos out the door and homes and hillside just beyond house were flaming got to hotel and roommates 65 Vette parked next to 914 in shop was nowhere in site. He left it and the whole shop burned for 2 days as well as all of our out buildings and home! Not a single drop of water, boots or mop up crew entered the property. We got an evacuation notice later that evening in our hotel. The fire went building to building on our 5 acres also other neighbors in the path burned to oblivion! No support equals ash and nothing else except metal junk! Our 59 bus was destroyed but if we had parked vehicles in the gravel driveway or the mowed field they would have survived I also think that tires on vehicles tractors are easy fuel as a Kubota on cut grass burned but a a mower with plastic wheels and fuel tank was untouched but grass around it burned and still had gas in plastic tank. If you don't have time or vehicles have dead battery push it out away from fuel like trees in the open and you will have something to come back to!

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Take it from someone who just lived through this nightmare! At 2am I woke up in a sweat no power on Aug 16th LNU fire. Drove to towards the fire and saw a big orange glow raced back to our house to get the family out, the parrot and opened the shop (metal ag building) and fired up the 914 and had wife drive it to a friend's house I grabbed a couple momentos out the door and homes and hillside just beyond house were flaming got to hotel and roommates 65 Vette parked next to 914 in shop was nowhere in site. He left it and the whole shop burned for 2 days as well as all of our out buildings and home! Not a single drop of water, boots or mop up crew entered the property. We got an evacuation notice later that evening in our hotel. The fire went building to building on our 5 acres also other neighbors in the path burned to oblivion! No support equals ash and nothing else except metal junk! Our 59 bus was destroyed but if we had parked vehicles in the gravel driveway or the mowed field they would have survived I also think that tires on vehicles tractors are easy fuel as a Kubota on cut grass burned but a a mower with plastic wheels and fuel tank was untouched but grass around it burned and still had gas in plastic tank. If you don't have time or vehicles have dead battery push it out away from fuel like trees in the open and you will have something to come back to!

That's terrible and must be devastating to go through