How this Malibu mansion defeated California wildfire. It's a concrete miracle

As relentless wildfires in California swallowed everything in their path, reducing forests and neighbourhoods to smouldering ruins, a USD 9 million, three-story mansion in Malibu was found surprisingly intact and unscathed after the raging flames subsided. TYCOON FINDS HIS MALIBU MANSION STANDING TALL AFTER CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES The mansion, owned by David Steiner, a retired waste management executive, was initially believed to be a total loss when he received footage of smoke and flames engulfing his property and those of his neighbours. "It looked like nothing could have possibly survived that, and I thought we had lost the house," 64-year-old Steiner told The New York Post, adding, "I started getting pictures and realised we had made it through". NOT A MIRACLE, BUT CONCRETE, SAVED HOUSES IN WILDFIRES While Steiner said his mansion was built with "stucco and stone walls" along with a "fireproof roof", it helped the structure withstand the fire, another building in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades neighbourhood, with a "solid concrete perimeter wall" survived the wildfire too. "To be honest, I don't really understand why people build beautiful new homes with timber adjacent to forests that combust at regular intervals," said Sadka on X.