The owner of a mansion that miraculously survived the devastating Los Angeles wildfires has revealed why he thinks his home escaped disaster.

At least 11 people have lost their lives as a result of the devastating fires, while more than 10,000 homes and other structures are said to have been destroyed.

David Steiner, from Texas, is one of the lucky ones as his $9 million Malibu mansion is somehow still standing after the raging fires approached his home.

The 64-year-old retired waste-management higher up thought his mansion was a goner after a local contractor sent him a video of flames and smoke engulfing nearby properties.

The mansion miraculously survived the blaze (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

But somehow, the house – which was vacant at the time – is still standing.

Steiner told the New York Post: “It’s a miracle — miracles never cease. [The contractor] was watching the news reports and saw my neighbor’s house going down and told me, ‘It looks like your house is going, too.

“It [the video] looked like nothing could have possibly survived that, and I thought we had lost the house.”

Once the fire had calmed down, Steiner was expecting his mansion to be burnt to the ground, bun then he received the unexpected news it was still standing.

He added: “I started getting pictures and realized we had made it through. My wife sent me something this morning that said, ‘Last house standing’. And it brought a pretty big smile to my face at a pretty bad time.”

As for how the mansion survived the fire, Steiner told the New York Post how the property’s ‘ultra-sturdy construction’ likely saved it from the fires.

“It’s stucco and stone with a fireproof roof,’’ he said.

Steiner thought his mansion was a goner (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

While Steiner is grateful his mansion survived the fire, he’s understandably hurt by the devastating events taking place in LA right now.

“It wasn’t a happy time,” he said of the moment he received texts stating his home was being engulfed by flames. “But I can replace it. It’s not a person.”

Steiner continued: “I was getting texts from people saying, ‘We’re praying for you. It’s so horrible’. I said, ‘Don’t pray for me — what I lost is material goods.’ … I lost a property, but others lost their homes.”

The home doesn’t have the usual family connection you get with a property, with Steiner explaining how he bought the mansion when two of his sons were in the area for school.

The architect of a Los Angeles home that miraculously survived the devastating wildfires has detailed the ‘design choices’ that helped.

Local Officials have confirmed at least six fires are blazing in the LA region, with the latest, the Archer fire, out of control after starting on Friday (January 10).

At least 11 people have lost their lives as a result of the devastating fires, while more than 10,000 homes and other structures are said to have been destroyed.

We have heard stories of houses surviving the fire despite all properties around them being destroyed. Such news has provided remarkable but chilling pictures.

11 people have died as a result of the wildfires (Apu Gomes/Getty Images)

One particular image is doing the rounds on social media, showing a house still standing as all the nearby properties have been burnt to a crisp.

But how did the house survive?

Well, the building’s architect has since taken to Twitter to reveal how.

“No words really – just a horror show. Some of the design choices we made here helped. But we were also very lucky,” the architect who goes by the name of ‘g chasen’ wrote alongside a photo of the house.

“Architect on this. Will share a detailed thread after the dust settles a bit,” the architect added.

He explained in the comments of the Twitter post that he had designed the house for a friend.

While the house has sustained some damage, the architect explained how the property is ‘totally liveable’.

Speaking of how the house survived the blaze, ‘g chasen’ penned: “Also no vents or eaves and tempered glass windows. Lucky that there was bit more space from the neighbors – but unlucky that the neighbor pulled his car into driveway. Solid concrete perimeter wall probably saved us there.”

The house remarkably survived (Twitter/@ChasenGreg)

He added: “The trail of 1200° molten aluminum stands out. The neighbor moved his car into the driveway before leaving – this may have burned his house down.”

As for the damage caused, the architect added: “A couple glass panels will require replacement. Otherwise fine. A tiny bit of ash residue collected on the interior sill there.”

David Steiner, from Texas, is another one of the lucky ones as his $9 million Malibu mansion is somehow still standing after the raging fires approached his home.

As for how the mansion survived the fire, Steiner told the New York Post how the property’s ‘ultra-sturdy construction’ likely saved it from the fires.

“It’s stucco and stone with a fireproof roof,’’ he said.

The Eaton Fire broke out on January 7 and currently impacts 13,690 acres of northern Los Angeles in the area near Altadena Drive and Midwick Drive in Altadena/Pasadena.

Five people are reported as having passed away as a result of the blaze, the Los Angeles County Fire Department told CBS News Los Angeles yesterday (January 9) – and the number is expected to rise.

One of those to get caught up in the blaze is Victor, his sister Shari Shaw having since spoken out about her escape from the fire but her devastation at being forced to leave her sibling behind.

Victor Shaw, 66, got caught up in the Eaton Fire (ABC7)

Shari told KTLA 5: “When I went back in and yelled out his name, he didn’t reply back, and I had to get out because the embers were so big and flying like a firestorm – I had to save myself.”

She added that she opened the front door and tried yelling out to her brother urging him to leave but ‘didn’t hear him say anything’.

“And I looked behind me, and the house was starting to go up in flames, and I had to leave,” she said, Shari making the difficult decision to run to her car and ‘just [get] out’.

Victor’s body was later discovered on the side of the road near their home, Victor reportedly clutching onto a hosepipe, a family friend Al Tanner told the outlet.

Victor’s sister has opened up about his passing (ABC7)

“It looks like he was trying to save the home that his parents had for almost 55 years,” Tanner said.

Shari told ABC7: “He discovered he had a water hose in his hand. So, we think that he might have tried to put the fire out or tried to make a path to lead to his truck. Or maybe had doused himself.”

When Shari received the news of her brother’s passing, she ‘fell to the ground’.

“And I didn’t know – I didn’t want to look at him,” she continued. “They just told me that he was lying on the ground and that he looked serene, as if he was at peace.”

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The owner of a mansion engulfed by the Palisades Fire has spoken out about the ‘miracle’ of it being engulfed in flames and it looking like ‘nothing could have survived’.

Wildfires have been sweeping across California, engulfing Los Angeles and leaving destruction in their wake, thousands of structures damaged or destroyed, hundreds of thousands of people impacted and at least 11 dead, The Guardian reports.

Many people’s homes and businesses have been destroyed, with a number of those affected also including some celebrities.

David Steiner owns a three-storey mansion in Malibu worth nearly $9 million.

The property was empty at the time the fires first erupted, according to the 64-year-old retired waste-management executive and dad-of-three from Texas.

However, a local contractor sent Steiner a video of the property and surrounding area on Tuesday (January 7) after spotting it on the news, with the house next door ‘going down’ and the contractor warning Steiner that his house looked like it was ‘going too’.

Steiner told the New York Post it didn’t look like anything ‘could have possibly survived’ the blaze he saw in the footage and he believed he’d ‘lost the house’.

However, he then received images showing the house had ‘made it through’ and the house was actually the ‘last house standing’ according to his wife.

David Steiner’s mansion somehow survived the fires (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Steiner attributes the ‘miracle’ down to two specific design elements of the property – ‘it’s stucco and stone with a fireproof roof,’ he explains.

He added the property also has pilings which are ‘like 50 feet into the bedrock’.

Aarself explains: “One of the most well-known construction techniques, piling is the process of driving or boring long, slender columns (known as piles) deep into the ground to form a pile foundation for buildings, bridges or other structures.”

Although, Steiner admits the design elements would’ve meant the property would’ve been more protected from an earthquake opposed to a fire.