17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On 26 Sep 96 at 20:46, snow wrote:
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
Well, let's not debate over firefighting, a lousy analogy... As long as Canadair sells water bombers, let them do. It brings money to Montreal... :) As for Jim Bell, he would probably say that he just proposes to use your techniques. :) jfa