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wood

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  1. Well, this. x Eleventy bazillion.
  2. NSIAP ... I just read elsewhere that 'the city of Pasadena has asked the media to tell their citizens to stop using their leaf blowers to try and put out fires because it is just burning their neighbors homes down. Apparently it's become a serious problem'. Wow. That's just gonna feed the fire. People are getting dumber by the day. SMH.
  3. I used the exact same word today to describe Trump, Elon, et al for making the LA fires a political football. Last night on x, I challenged Elon & Charlie Kirk to ask me anything so they could learn something. They declined, because they're pussies who aren't interested in how anything actually fucking works.
  4. Yep. Where on the engine can I find the water hammer?
  5. And then there's this sneaky bastage eyeballin' my 'za ...
  6. 100% my cat is fucking awesome. Dude thinks he's a dog, too. Rain, water, dirt, mud, even snow. Zero fucks to give. He rolls in the dirt just for the fuck of it. When it gets cold he comes inside and jumps up onto my chair or the bed if I'm sleeping, and curls up between my legs like he is right now. NTTAWWT.
  7. NM. Much better explanations from Herbie & BillyGoatHill above!
  8. Absolutely 100% guaranteed.
  9. So before there's another freak-out - over them not having hoses on the engine - there are several possible reasons for that. - they had to leave them behind at another fire because they were in use by other crews/apparatus and they still wanted to keep this engine in service as a manpower unit, doing whatever it could do - they had to drop lines and leave a fire scene quickly to escape with their own lives - it could be a reserve engine that simply wasn't even ready for front line service but they took it out anyway (pretty likely imho, since it's an 'all hands on deck' situation where you wouldn't have enough apparatus for everyone who's coming in to work), or other reasons.
  10. Thanks for taking that one on, Herbie. Nobody's missing any time on the end of a handline because they decided to go do pressers instead. I understand the emotional response from that poster, but it's only that - an emotional, malformed response. And nobody's just letting a school burn because they don't feel like putting it out. In situations like these, as you're well aware and I mentioned earlier, it's a case of triaging the fires just as you would do at a mass-casualty incident.
  11. For a comparison, 32,000 acres burned in the Bastrop fire. So, superimpose the Bastrop fire on SoCal, and this is the result.
  12. Yeah I was referring to rural wildlands. In WUI areas fuel removal helps, but not by burning it. They aren't going to do that near residential areas. Removal helps. It's not going to prevent the incident, but it can lessen the severity.
  13. That's nuts. Wow. Takes some big swinging cojones to pick up water out there imho.
  14. Yep. That's what I was telling y'all about a couple of weeks ago (per my 'friend who knows F1 things'. Hasn't failed me yet). Seems like Flav really likes him, and now he's apparently been confirmed with a multi-year deal, starting as a reserve in 2025: https://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/43345899/alpine-adds-franco-colapinto-f1-reserve-driver-2025 This article also suggests that Doohan's contract is only confirmed through 6 races next year: https://www.planetf1.com/news/franco-colapinto-alpine-rumours-deleted-social-media-post
  15. Yep, we haven't talked about it, but controlled burns help a lot. But environmental regs aren't the only things keeping those things from happening. It's also about funding. There's a whole lot of acreage all over the country that really needs maintenance in the form of controlled burning, but isn't getting it.
  16. wood

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    Yeah the suspension of reality failed its final test when I looked up and saw them trying to pass off Jerruh as some kind of family man LOFL. What in the actual fuck?
  17. Oh, and just one more thing before I shut up for a while, re: the dry hydrants. Just working large structure fires like, for example, an apartment fire with a whole building or multiple buildings involved, you can have water supply issues if you have too many hydrants flowing in that area. In very general terms, the more hydrants you open up, the less volume and pressure you'll end up with on each hydrant. Now imagine maybe hundreds or maybe even thousands of hydrants opened up all over the place over a broader area, with numerous firefighting agencies all working with them at the same time, literal chaos as you try to chase current fires and new fires popping up all over the place, triaging the fires so as not to waste resources on lost causes, trying to make sure everyone is out and evacuating and at the same time rescuing those who need it, dispatch absolutely swamped with radio and telephone traffic, not enough radio channels so they're all jammed with radio traffic making it very difficult for even the most basic comms, etc ... I don't envy those folks at all. They're going through the wringer.
  18. Yep. Those canyons around there aren't places where you can do much to stop the fires, esp once they start going vertical up the chutes and chimneys, where the flame spread rate increases dramatically. Homes at the top? Fuggedaboutit.
  19. She's probably not wrong imho. We've already had Bastrop, and the big residential fires in Oak Hill & Steiner Ranch. If there hadn't have been - just by chance - multiple firefighting aircraft nearby while just passing through, that Oak Hill Pinnacle fire might still be burning. Those guys saved Oak Hill. Between the Pinnacle Fire and the Steiner Ranch Fire, iirc around 40 homes were lost. If we'd had sustained winds like they have out in SoCal, it would have been much, much worse.
  20. You don't have to remove it all to that level. Just create a buffer around structures. Still no guarantees, but it tends to help your odds significantly.
  21. Yep. It is. It gets windy around here too, but the biggest difference in our favor is that we don't have regular Santa Anas and eucalyptus trees all over the place. We're lucky compared to them, but yeah, when the conditions are bad here, we all know we're walking a knife edge.
  22. This. But most people won't do it if it compromises (in their mind) the 'look' of their property.
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