You don’t understand wildland fire mitigation very much, do you. Every penny helps you troll.
And by the way, I have my red card, and a minor in forest fire management.
Glad to hear from an expert on the situation , as someone who is in fire management there is a lot you can explain.
There are so much about this .
What general resources that would have been needed to prevent the scale of the fires?
If properly resourced how would the response have been significantly different? Of course each fire fighter counts, but what would the scale need to have been to change this event? What should people be focusing on when we demand better?
For example I heard the the first hours and days of the fires air assets could not be deployed because of the 60-80 mile hour winds. that was cited as a significant factor in the initial spread. though the source was just on the news so no idea how creditable
Are there types of air craft designed to fight fires in tropical storm like conditions?
Are fire like this seen coming by the city FD?
How are resources allocated when multiple fires rage?
In your opinion what cities are doing a good job with fire/disaster planning? What cities globally face similar challenges as Los Angles? Are there lessons than can be learned from those places?
To keep it short, it’s called mitigation. You “prevent” crazy fires by eliminating fuel sources. But remember, homes are fuel sources as well, often great fuel sources. I will let you do the math.
Since this is the topic of the day can you elaborate?
I’ve only study structure fire resistance as a home owner in a fire prone area. City run local group disaster prep as well as small out building construction ( garages and sheds , not residential structures or commercial ones)
controlled burns weren’t possible for the last year because of severe drought.
Most homes in la are built with ibc compliance. There are sticklers about it especially with new construction. They still allow class V buildings but ordnances usually require a non-combustion coating, such as harde cement board or stucco . I am not sure if all places require type V building to be class A in my experience that has been the case
Much of the homes burned like Alta Dena and the palisades were on the urban/wild interface. So basically back yards were forests bordering to the Santa Monica mountains.
What are the most effective fuel mitigation efforts that can be done in cases like LA where a literal forest runs though the center of the city?
What about on a more local level ?
Is it literally thousands of people raking the forests?
You don’t understand wildland fire mitigation very much, do you. Every penny helps you troll. And by the way, I have my red card, and a minor in forest fire management.
Glad to hear from an expert on the situation , as someone who is in fire management there is a lot you can explain.
There are so much about this . What general resources that would have been needed to prevent the scale of the fires? If properly resourced how would the response have been significantly different? Of course each fire fighter counts, but what would the scale need to have been to change this event? What should people be focusing on when we demand better?
For example I heard the the first hours and days of the fires air assets could not be deployed because of the 60-80 mile hour winds. that was cited as a significant factor in the initial spread. though the source was just on the news so no idea how creditable
Are there types of air craft designed to fight fires in tropical storm like conditions?
Are fire like this seen coming by the city FD?
How are resources allocated when multiple fires rage?
In your opinion what cities are doing a good job with fire/disaster planning? What cities globally face similar challenges as Los Angles? Are there lessons than can be learned from those places?
To keep it short, it’s called mitigation. You “prevent” crazy fires by eliminating fuel sources. But remember, homes are fuel sources as well, often great fuel sources. I will let you do the math.
Since this is the topic of the day can you elaborate?
I’ve only study structure fire resistance as a home owner in a fire prone area. City run local group disaster prep as well as small out building construction ( garages and sheds , not residential structures or commercial ones)
controlled burns weren’t possible for the last year because of severe drought.
Most homes in la are built with ibc compliance. There are sticklers about it especially with new construction. They still allow class V buildings but ordnances usually require a non-combustion coating, such as harde cement board or stucco . I am not sure if all places require type V building to be class A in my experience that has been the case
Much of the homes burned like Alta Dena and the palisades were on the urban/wild interface. So basically back yards were forests bordering to the Santa Monica mountains.
What are the most effective fuel mitigation efforts that can be done in cases like LA where a literal forest runs though the center of the city?
What about on a more local level ?
Is it literally thousands of people raking the forests?