On 25 Sep 96 at 5:59, Brian Davis wrote:
I disagree that that will be the response, but you should be willing to allow one group of people to fight fire with fire. But generally, it has been found a much better solution to fight fire with water, and this is why I am not convinced of the ideological effectiveness of AP, although I don't doubt it's operationnal effectiveness at all.
Having been a firefighter for about 4 years, I can say that for small fires water works quite a bit better. For larger fires (over a hundred acres or so) setting a backfire, or burning out the fuel in the direction the fire is probably going to go is a hell of a lot easier than hauling millons and millions of gallons or blood^h^h^h^h^h water. Petro, Christopher C. petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff> snow@smoke.suba.com