On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:13 PM, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:27:05AM -0500, Legatus wrote: > > You know air water drops as a means of fire suppression is not generally > > effective. They are often used simply as a very expensive (sometimes at > > the > > cost of pilots life) PR method. People think that is what they should > > see, > > so that is what they are given. Not to say that they don't have a place, > > just that most of the time, they are for show, while all the real > > firefighting still happens on the ground. > > > > They sure looked effective at last weekends brush fire in Sorrento Valley. > While the ground firefighters were struggling just to get up the side of > the hill to where the fire even was, the helicopters seemed to manage to > get most of it out. > > Although I agree that they looked extremely dangerous for the pilots. > > Brush and Timber fires are different beasts. My comments should be considered in relationship to timber fires. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
