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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why aren’t fire mitigation systems installed as part of the public works systems, developments or private homes? Large water guns to create a barrier or cover a neighborhood?  [/quote]

jfc. Can we all agree to ignore these posts? The stupidity is overwhelming. [/quote]

Yeah it’s so stupid other countries use it.

https://www.wired.com/story/spanish-wildfire-defenses/[/quote]

Not sure it would be effective in the face of huge winds, and considering how many of these sprinklets LA would need since so much of the residential areas borders nature. You really cannot compare that to a tiny village's set up with 40 towers. LA would need thousands.[/quote]

Damp surfaces put out the embers carried by wind, it’s not a wall of fire moving through the area.  Water on roofs and yards would go a long way.[/quote]

Not in high winds. There is no damp when you have Santa Ana winds. Water evaporates almost immediately. There isn't enough water for everyone in this huge area. You DO NOT GET IT.[/quote]

Do I don’t and I don’t think you do either. You seem to have a defeatist position on this topic.  I’m not saying it will eliminate all risk but it certainly wouldn’t make it worse.  I’m literally watching people on tv using buckets and garden hoses to protect their homes, I’m suggesting it be implemented on wider scale. You still haven’t offered ANY suggestions [/quote]

DP. It actually can make it worse because it diverts resources and puts people in harms way. The hypothetical miles-long hose to the ocean + pumps and manpower is a distraction and impediment to actual firefighting. Especially if not centrally organized, because you will get a bunch of rich people buying up hose and clogging the roads with private (probably untrained) crews trying to experiment in real time to save their personal house that's a mile inland and uphill. 
If you want to organize an experiment like this when disaster is not actively happening, that's great and I wish you luck. [b]Though I'm pretty sure you are not the first person to notice the ocean. [/b]

BTW, the people with buckets aren't accomplishing anything in this situation. In smaller fires, perhaps.

If you want solutions, they are mostly in prevention: buried power lines, better road planning (and reduced SFH housing overall), more fire breaks, fire resistant buildings, more controlled burns, and doing what we still can to halt or reverse climate change. Notice these are all "central planning" type actions that both sides of the political aisle oppose. [/quote]

You're my new favorite, PP.  [/quote]

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