What does Bradbury's description of the fire suggest in "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

The narrator's description of the house fire in "There Will Come Soft Rains" is full of personification that suggests the fire is consciously destroying the automated house. The fire doesn't destroy the house, it "fed" and "lay" and "backed off" and it "was clever" and "rushed back."

In addition to personifying the fire, he compares the house to an animal, including predator-like descriptions. The house is "gushing green chemicals" and the fire "backed off, even...

The narrator's description of the house fire in "There Will Come Soft Rains" is full of personification that suggests the fire is consciously destroying the automated house. The fire doesn't destroy the house, it "fed" and "lay" and "backed off" and it "was clever" and "rushed back."

In addition to personifying the fire, he compares the house to an animal, including predator-like descriptions. The house is "gushing green chemicals" and the fire "backed off, even as an elephant must at the sight of a dead snake." The fire wins the battle when it destroys the "attic brain" with a "clever" explosion.

Each of these instances demonstrates how Bradbury wants the reader to think of the fire. He wants you to see the fire as a human (or sentient) opponent of the mechanical house. At the end of the story, this is the thematic idea presented. These mechanical advances humans make are only temporary and, when all humans are gone and only these machines are left, nature will battle and reclaim all that is hers.