[jyl]

When we were still at the lake cabin, watching the fire’s progress, I offered to buy my friend, whose family owns the place, a couple of portable gas powered dirty water pumps. The idea was we could rig up soaker hoses on the roof ridges and sprinklers around the house. If the fire got into SLT they could start the pumps and pull well or lake water to saturate the house exterior and surrounding grounds for hours or even days, even running the pumps unattended until the gas tanks were empty. The area around the cabin doesn’t have all that much fuel, it’s mostly sand and the trees are widely spaced, they’ve kept it cleared and there’s a wide meadow between them and the south. Hard to describe the setup but I thought it was worth doing. But the idea of the fire reaching the lakeshore seemed remote and they were leaving for a backpacking trip around Bishop so it never happened. I kind of regret not pushing the issue.