You can pack up and flee when a raging wildfire comes toward your home, but unless your house is on wheels, it's out of luck. That is, unless you follow the lead of Washington man John Belles, who built his home in 1999 to withstand wildfires by making it into what is essentially a concrete dome.

It worked. Belles recently rode out a massive fire near Riverside, Washington inside his concrete dome of a home, watching the blaze go by from the safety of his living room. The PVC coating the outside of his home wasn't even scorched, apparently.

According to KPTV, the complex of wildfires that passed by Belles' home scorched more than 227,000 acres total. Fire authorities don't yet know how many homes in Washington have been destroyed, but this odd one is still standing tall.

Source: KPTV via Daily Mail

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