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Originally Posted by Scott Douglas
One chopper dropping maybe 300 gallons of water is not going to do much, even with no winds, in that dry brush.
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My point exactly. Simply too little too late to knock it down.
According to NOAA the maximum sustained winds were 29 mph between LAX and the Palisades until 5pm when the windspeed increased greatly overnight. Air Attack assets are able to operate pretty well in these conditions right up until sundown when things got real sporty. They just didn't get on it quickly enough to avoid the firestorm that ensued.