Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Due to the risk of oxygen toxicity, a diver can only safely scuba dive to a very shallow depth when breathing 100% oxygen, typically around 13 feet (3.9 meters), as exceeding this depth can lead to seizures from central nervous system oxygen toxicity.

That's a much more conservative standard than I was taught. I was taught 20 ft. And my dive computer is set to 20 ft. If I went down to 20.5 feet on pure O2, it balked at me until I got back up to 20 ft, wherein it gave me the "smiley face."
 
Let’s see, no defensible space, trees/bushes right up to/overhanging the building, looks like some of the trees are/were eucalyptus (oily torches), no roof top sprinklers or water tank, and the list goes on. Note the house in the upper left has a lawn (defensible space), tile roof and probably stucco walls and is still standing.

Yet I’ve also seen houses with the recommended precautions burn too. The fire, fuel, terrain, and wind ALL have a hand in it.
What I am seeing is the house is burned, but no signs of fire in any of the brush or trees around the house?
 
What I am seeing is the house is burned, but no signs of fire in any of the brush or trees around the house?
I went back and looked at it on something larger than a phone screen, to my eye there is fire damage to the pampas grass clumps and continuing to the left of the image, but not total destruction like I’ve seen in some of the catastrophic fires up here. To be honest I’m hard pressed to make the call about the vegetation burn causing or being caused by the structure fire.

But my earlier points are still valid on the lack of fire Resistant landscaping. If I were still on an Engine and doing pre-planing she would have received a packet of recommendations and we would log our observations.
 
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