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The fire of London was stopped by removing anything that can burn and creating a boundary, removing the fuel essentially

I'm sure they didn't have the same kind of windy conditions LA has dealt with.







/jarmo

Correct.  Embers were traveling upwards of a mile in California and then reigniting.  Hard to remove all flamable material within a mile radius of an existing fire......

Yeah, I saw that on the map. There's houses outside the fire boundary that have burned, so that must be due to this

Do.fireproof houses exist?

The fire of London was stopped by removing anything that can burn and creating a boundary, removing the fuel essentially

I'm sure they didn't have the same kind of windy conditions LA has dealt with.







/jarmo

Correct.  Embers were traveling upwards of a mile in California and then reigniting.  Hard to remove all flamable material within a mile radius of an existing fire......

Nice.

That is (was) a great soundtrack.

I remember enjoying the contributions from Korn, LB, Everlast and Eminem also.

That CD got spun to death in 1999 in my car and apartment.

And there is the issue of "no water" available!

That's not going to change.  Mother nature is responding to the changes made by man.  Fire is her way, she'll be okay.  Man on the other hand, not going to do so well.  Great time to sell and move on.

The fire of London was stopped by removing anything that can burn and creating a boundary, removing the fuel essentially

I'm sure they didn't have the same kind of windy conditions LA has dealt with.





/jarmo

And there is the issue of "no water" available!

The fire of London was stopped by removing anything that can burn and creating a boundary, removing the fuel essentially

Fires that size, you need a lot of water to make an impact. Not sure those systems would cut it sadly, though maybe they could upscale them a bit.

Glad Axl's place is okay so far. He seems to deal with this a lot. The devastation from these fires is crazy though.

You can tell I've given this some thought.     The sprinkler system is used before blowing embers ignite elsewhere and spread the fire out or so the fire runs into wet vegetation and slows it down. Some of those people saved their home just by keeping the roof wet with a garden hose.  I wonder if a metal or tile roof would have help?  Maybe there are some new fire codes that help when these folks go to rebuild.  Not right on top of each other would help too.

Fires that size, you need a lot of water to make an impact. Not sure those systems would cut it sadly, though maybe they could upscale them a bit.

Glad Axl's place is okay so far. He seems to deal with this a lot. The devastation from these fires is crazy though.

Good idea.  Imagine how much fun it would be when they had to test the neighborhood sprinkler system.   

I can't be the only one who has ever thought of this.  I wonder why they don't do something like it?