They talked about helicopters putting out the fires in an America park today July 29, 2014, the story made me laugh. Such a tiny amount of water (relative to the size of the fire) and so time consuming.
If the fire was really important to someone, they would have 100 water bombers working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, water bombing the fires.
A true Army of mankind's warfare Army size.
They don't because it would cost money.
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Lawsuit against plantation firm , plantation firm was guilty of negligence in failing to prevent fires.
"Company ordered to pay record $76m over fires in Sumatra"
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A real firefighting airplane is the 415 water-bomber/Bombardier 415 , super-scooper
Provides 6,140 litres (1350 Imperial gal or 1,620 US gal) of water.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_415
List of other water bombers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_firefighting
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| results of an uncontrolled fire in urban area |
Who would pay for this?
1a) The Insurance companies that have to pay off ( on a destroyed house) in case of a fire.
Fort McMurry cost "The estimated total cost will reach $3.58 billion,"
1b) The psychological damage to all the people who lost their homes to fire. This can't be measured. "Mental health referrals spike in wake of Fort McMurray fire. More than 20% of community seeking some sort of counselling or therapy"
2) The forestry sector loses millions of dollars of lumber.
Combined with the fact of more deforestation when people need more wood to rebuild after a fire.
3) The oil industry can't work the oil sands, can't make money, if there is a fire.
4a) Federal Government can tell the people its doing something and a massive Army of firefighter would employ a lot of people.
4 b) The countries carbon footprint. If the amount of carbon from an uncontrolled forest fire is calculated, it would be huge. A far less impact would be all the gasoline used in the many machines that would be used to put out and locate a fire(prevention).
Beginning of 2016, many fires lately.
Add up the cost for Fort McMurry "The fire destroyed 2,400 structures, nearly 10 per cent of the city, when it ripped through in May and forced more than 80,000 residents to flee."
Ballpark 2,000 X $100,000= $200,000,000.00 (two hundred million dollars) and the psychological damage to all the people.UPDATE I was way off.The cost was 3.58 billion.or $3,580,000,000.00
"A forest fire has forced the evacuation of the Easterville and the Chemawawin Cree Nation in central Manitoba on Thursday. " "Some 2,000 people from Chemawawin were forced out"
USA "685 Homes Evacuated As Forest Fire Threatens Duarte"
"Calabasas, California Some of the 5,000 people evacuated Saturday night were allowed to return Sunday morning,"
Fire forces evacuation of 185 Pine Valley homes
LAKE ISABELLA, Calif."Several thousand people have been forced to evacuate, and some 1,500 homes are threatened."
2019 https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/fire-in-california-latest-easy-getty-kincade-fires-evacuations-today-live-updates-2019-10-31/
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