Through the years of dome building we have always been playing a guessing game when it comes to reinforcement. So we finally found a way to find out once in for all, what is happening in these domes?

What should have been a quiet, ordinary Sunday afternoon for Ruth and Al Braswell wasn’t. Temps that dry and fateful day reached above the 100-degree mark—the perfect conditions for a brush fire. The Bryant Fire of August 11, 2002, spread rapidly and ferociously. Within a short time, the flames reached the surrounding wall and outlying buildings at the Braswell estate.