[fintstone]

Originally Posted by fintstone

I don't understand how running out of water to fight a fire is not an issue in the fire not being contained or what having hundreds of reservoirs that did not provide water to the area that ran out (where the fire originated) makes a difference.

If "more rigs earlier would have only emptied the system earlier" as noted earlier, then why was the "system" not designed to provide sufficient water?

It seems to me that if a sufficient number of resources arrived quickly to fight the Palisades fire (including water which ran out quickly), I cannot see why it could not be extinguished before it became too large to fight. Even more so if not for the massive amount of dry scrub/growth allowed in the area.

If fires in CA are impossible to prevent or fight (unlike everywhere else in the world), I cannot imagine living there. If indeed that is actually the case, perhaps the state should not allow anyone to rebuild and depopulate what remains. It is just too dangerous. Make the state (or at least the LA metro area) a giant national park?

Originally Posted by speeder

Are you to be taken seriously or is this just a trolling exercise? You don’t think that they are fighting this fire?

The water pressure issue has been sufficiently explained several times…it was a water volume issue. Not enough water anywhere to fight this using hydrants alone. Planes and helicopters could not fly.

California has the best wildfire fighters in the world.

While I agree that running out of water while fighting a fire is a "volume" issue, I do not understand why one might believe that running out does not cause a volume issue. One can easily calculate volume flow...but it goes to zero when the supply runs out.

Obviously, it was pretty impossible to fight such a large fire once it got out of control (covered hundreds of acres) and they were out of water. If they had arrived earlier with sufficient resources, the outcome would have been different.

According to firefighters, they did not have enough personnel, equipment, or water...and they arrived almost an hour too late. I don't blame them.