This photo, taken after the 1991 Oakland, California firestorm shows the devastating damage to a neighborhood.  Burning embers destroyed all of the homes in the neighborhood, except the masonry home that was roofed with Gerard Stone-Coated Steel Roofing.  While all of the neighbors fought (without success) to save their homes by watering down their asphalt roofs, burning embers could not ignite the steel roof. This single house with the steel roof survived while all others around it were destroyed.