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Default CA. Fires - What's wrong with the inspectors?

HeyBub wrote:
Kurt Ullman wrote:
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"HeyBub" wrote:

Swimming pool, generator, pump?

With a fire that is not all that contained by multiple 1500 gpm
pumpers using tanker shuttles? Good luck.


Right, but the pumper trucks are for BIG fires. This guy said he and his
neighbor scurried about dousing little fires so they never became big ones.
Put out hundreds and hundreds of embers, they did.


Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. All depends on how many
come how quickly and what there is as a fuel source. If you're lucky
the number is small enough you have sufficient resources to stay even.

If not, ...

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