Comment by ajsnigrutin

Even single family homes are built from bricks and cement. Even large ones.

It's not just gas explosion, it's 'everything', fire, structural rigidity (only ground floor houses are rare, almost non existant here), and well.. they're built to last.

https://www.metropolitan.si/kronika/tovornjak-trcil-v-hiso-s... <- a truck hit a building, and old one, and you can see the damage... one wall. The girl in the room survived.

I mean... again.. you could build a home that is "fire resistant", and we do, but most americans don't, as we see in LA.