This is an interesting story that I came across the other day. I have wondered about this over the past few years myself. It seams that many of the fires in older houses in the city are less destructive than fires in new suburban homes. With some of the fires on the news in the past few years, at least in Rochester, there have been new homes completely destroyed and other older ones that only show some black around the windows from the outside.
It is possible that fire department response time could be a factor - many suburban departments are partially volunteer and take a little longer to get to the scene than the paid / full-time city fire department. But as this news story shows, there are more factors behind this trend.
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