By the Numbers: Why LA was never going to stop these Fires…

Good Evening Readers,

As we all know after watching the vivid and wild footage from the north LA fires, there is a serious deficient in our nation’s presumption about the reality of fighting wildfires and urban fire storms in a dry, windy area.

I have fortunately had the time and opportunity to travel and work various jobs.

One of those was working with the forestry service as a contractor for a few weeks watching how professionals fight a forest fire. My job was to take care of base camp. It was a good job for a young man. And it was very hard work. One of the hardest jobs I have ever had.

Let’s focus on numbers at the moment. Since we can all agree with numbers.

If you read this article you will learn that they only had 3 million gallons of water on demand to fight these fires.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-01-09/california-fires-water-supply-problems

There is a serious problem with a city, nation, population, or homeowner who thinks they can fight a firestorm in an urban area with 3 million gallons of water.

Why?

Because we also know that it can take 30,000-40,000 gallons of water to put out a burning Tesla electric vehicle.

https://ctif.org/news/150-000-liters-water-needed-put-out-fire-electric-car

https://www.whec.com/top-news/tesla-cybertruck-fire-took-over-an-hour-to-put-out-local-fire-chief-speaks-about-challenges-with-ev-fires/

3,000,000 Gallons of hydrant water in reserve…

Divided by 30,000 gallons per Tesla…

North LA City/County could successfully extinguish 100 burning Tesla’s…

I wonder why they ran out of water so fast when 10,000 structures and 90% of the flora and fauna caught fire…

Harden Up and Get Ready.

Thanks For Reading.

By Johnny ParatrooperPublished On: January 10, 2025Categories: Uncategorized2 Comments

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2 Comments

Lineman January 11, 2025 at 12:02

That is just one component of the whole clusterfuck…
rented mule January 11, 2025 at 18:01

Had a good friend who worked “weed abatement” in So Cal back in the 1980s not sure when this program ended, the idea was to reduce chances of fire. I have 40acres of ponderosa pine in ne was state to qualify as a tree farm we had a forester look it over and give us information. the forest service used to clean up deadfall clear some brush etc. to help mitigate fires. the policy changed to hands off & let nature take its course. forest fires have increased in severity as a result. I keep my place cleaned up, any beetle kill comes down all branches picked up etc. I will let standing snags stay in place as long as they are somewhat isolated. in the last fifteen years there have been two huge fires in the area we took in several “refugees” from across the river both times. with forest fires it’s not a matter of only when, you do what you can to reduce the danger & damage. I would guess nothing has been done anywhere in California as it seems no common sense exists in the power centers of the state. Particularly in so cal.