Ammon News - In a scene that could have been plucked from a disaster movie, there is one home that appears to be standing alone, untouched, amidst a sea of smoldering ruins.

The $9 million Malibu mansion belongs to David Steiner, a retired waste-management mogul from Texas and a married father-of-three.

As the Los Angeles wildfires consumed everything in their path, leaving neighborhoods in ashes, incredibly Steiner's three-story home remained, defiantly intact.

The gleaming white of the building appeared to stand out against the backdrop of destruction. But the survival of Steiner's 4,200-square-foot, four-bedroom home is no accident, he believes.

The property was designed to withstand earthquakes and features ultra-sturdy construction, including stucco and stone walls, a fireproof roof, and pilings driven 50 feet into bedrock to withstand the pounding surf below.

'To be totally honest with you, I never in a million years thought a wildfire would jump to the Pacific Coast Highway and start a fire,' Steiner told The New York Post on Friday.

'I thought, 'If we ever have an earthquake, this would be the last thing to go.' I honestly didn't think that if we had a fire, this would be the last thing to go. The architecture is pretty nice. But the stucco and fireproof roof are real nice.'

But the fireproof design appears to have proved its worth turning into a fortress against flames. Daily Mail