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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2009 18:11:38 GMT -5
When I watch national news about the fires in California, I invariably see firemen (and women, I guess) squirting their water hoses at everything except the actual fire. Why is that?
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Post by ohwell on Sept 2, 2009 18:37:39 GMT -5
You can't put out the fire, but you may be able to stop it from spreading and contain it. I have witnessed a forest fire. They aren't pretty.
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Post by joedog on Sept 2, 2009 18:40:15 GMT -5
It is the thought wet wood does not burn. The method is to starve the fire of fuel and it dies out. The problem out there is the humidity is so low (next to none) it sucks the moisture out of everything.
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Post by ohwell on Sept 2, 2009 18:55:12 GMT -5
You can't wet the wood. That's why they have bull dozers. It's to take away the fuel, not dampen what they have. I will place a cookie on the north side of the Erie Canal, you are on the south side, can you get it? No. That is why they dig ditches. So the fire can't get to the other side. You can stand there and pee all you want. When the fire is 20 miles long and five mile deep, you can't soak a piece of wood. You can starve it by giving it nothing else to consume.
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Post by el Gusano on Sept 2, 2009 21:42:00 GMT -5
Most of our time spent on the fires are a long way from the fire, cutting breaks, clearing dead trees and underbrush, etc. The only time at the actual fire itself is trying to save structures and going through afterward and take care of hot spots.
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