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You’d clear out flammable clutter, upgrade alarms, and perhaps install fireproof doors or sprinklers.

In addition to the fireproof qualities of building with earthen materials, adobes have other strong characteristics that strengthen the argument for reintroducing them into the city’s architectural fold.

Though no community can be made fireproof, discarding past urban design practices could make areas abutting wilderness safer from the kind of wildfire that hit Altadena and Pacific Palisades.

Attention to fireproof materials will also be key in an area that could face another fire.

Also, they usually include a fireproof ID medallion that crematory operators attach to the body before burning.