Northrup: Building Codes Important – All Otsego

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Not all houses burned in neighborhoods that otherwise were wiped out.
The survivors had been built with tile roofs, stucco or stone walls and metal-clad doors, and windows with operable metal shutters. You know, like those Spaniards.

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