Peanuts creator Charles Schulzs home burns down in Santa Rosa fire

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Source: Bangor Daily News/WaPo

By Michael Cavna, Washington Post • October 13, 2017 12:04 pm

Charles Schulz once drew his iconic dog Snoopy losing everything in a house fire. This week, for Schulz’s widow, that scenario became all too real.

Jean Schulz safely escaped the fires as they began sweeping through Santa Rosa, California, before dawn Monday, but the blaze burned to the ground the home where she and the late “Peanuts” creator long lived.

“I am devastated by the loss of the home I shared with Sparky for 25 years,” Schulz tells The Washington Post, “the memories of which filled me with happiness every day.”
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Jean Schulz is president of the board for the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, which was opened in Santa Rosa in 2002. The museum, which houses most of the original “Peanuts” art and much memorabilia, announced Thursday that it will close until further notice because of a lack of power, while also noting the building was spared from damage.

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[Girard442]

1. I'm glad Ms. Schulz is alright. I'm sorry she lost her house.

A lot to be sad about these days.

[yuiyoshida]

2. Good Grief...

[demigoddess]

3. wouldn't it be nice when we rebuild these houses, we build them so they can't burn down

again. If I were there I would build a house of cement block, stuccoed with cement and a slate roof. Is that too expensive or what?
Before you yell at me, there is a cement block house in Mississippi, I lived in back in the 60s, that was built in 1923, in an area often hit by hurricanes. A lot of the houses in the block are gone but that house still stands, last I checked.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Would a house like that meet earthquake code?

Keep in mind that as all the trees and brush are fiercely burning outside such a house, things inside will go up in flames.

[jmowreader]

16. If you put rebar in the voids and reinforcing ladders horizontally, it will

Could you flood a sealed concrete-block house with carbon dioxide and keep the contents inside safe?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

17. I suppose this hypothetical concrete block house

could be built so as to be flooded with CO2. So long as you have enough money for it.

[LanternWaste]

19. I think it's great you continue to rationalize why it can't be done.

I think it's great you continue to rationalize why it can't be done.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

20. So build it already.

Prove my doubts to be wrong.

You are the one throwing up the hypotheticals without any real foundation.

[demigoddess]

18. you can clear the vegetation back from the house, this is already recommended

but sometimes they do not think it is needed.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

21. Those who don't think clearing the vegetation back from the house is not needed,

often return to a burned out home.

[Brother Buzz]

15. You might have a chance if you didn't have windows

A lot of these houses are burning inside out. I heard, in passing, an authority recommended removing curtains and drapes before evacuating, which are essentially fuses waiting to combust. Think Fahrenheit 451.

[MontanaMama]

4. The Schulz's lived down the block

from my grandparents! My grandma and grandpa have passed but I'll be their house burned too. This is awful.

[Mrs. Overall]

5. So sad for those of us who have roots in or are from this area--my great great grandparents'

homestead near Kenwood (Sonoma County) has burned.

I can't even stand to watch the news on these fires anymore.

Sorry to hear about your grandparents' home.

[MontanaMama]

6. Oh my.

Tragic news about your family homestead! My late mother's best friend lives in Kenwood. I have been unable to reach her for days. She's in her early 80's and lives alone.

[Mrs. Overall]

11. Kenwood has been hit hard.

I hope you get in touch with your mother's friend.

Hopefully she had family/friends who helped her to evacuate.

[stopwastingmymoney]

8. My in laws lived on that hill too

I'm sorry to tell you that the entire hillside burned. We understand that one house survived, at the corner of Reibli and Foothill Ranch roads.

[MontanaMama]

9. I'm so sad to hear this.

What a gloomy day. The news on all fronts is bad...and I now see that it is snowing outside. Sigh.

[stopwastingmymoney]

12. I hope your Mom's friend is safe

I know a lot of people from Kenwood are sheltering in Santa Rosa now.

[Liberalagogo]

10. Here ya go:

[SkatmanRoth]

13. The Great Pumpkin is going to have to find an alternate landing zone this year.

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[raven mad]

14. Noospy's house?

That's what my daughter called him for years. I am so sorry for their loss.