Did you look at some of the photos of firefighters on the line in LA? Did you see the equipment/hoses they had employed? A PISS STREAM AGAINST THE INFERNO. Hardly effective at all. These urban efforts against wind-driven conflagrations proved inadequate by every measure. Certainly, fire of this magnitude needed heavy streams to contain and control the advance. The efforts lacked volume, water volume pumped from remote sources through small nozzles. What is needed is a complete revision of the tactics employed by these departments.
Cal Fire and the large counties need a re do of their customary fire fighting plans. The current plans and tactics don't work. The wind is too strong, the manpower insufficient, and the leadership lacking. Gov. Newsom should resign immediately. He's out galavanting around the country while the state is foundering under his governance. Time to go, Gavin, back to Marin County where you belong. Not Sacramento.
As the insurance companies and the insured address their issues, the evidence is plain to see: poorly planned warning systems; inadequate evacuation plans and routes; overall complacency by residents in the "It can't happen here" communities; and an aversion to put in place systems that could utilize unlimited salt water found next to the fire storm that enveloped the coast cities and towns.
Salt water is good for extinguishing fire: use it next time you go camping at the beach(many campgrounds exist along the California coast). Salt water is cheap and in many cases/areas, easily made available.
Try it, Gavin.
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