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We should at least try this while the fires are going even though it's expensive. There's no wildlife in the middle of a fire other than rodents under ground. J
by zavi 8y ago
We should at least try this while the fires are going even though it's expensive. There's no wildlife in the middle of a fire other than rodents under ground. Just bomb the area that's burning wider than the blast radius.
- waterphone 8y agoAs I replied to another comment, there's a lot more to object to than just wildlife. Natural and cultural/archaeological resources can be destroyed by explosions while fire may not destroy or damage them. (Think rock formations, rock shelters/caves, rock art sites, and the like.)
- zavi 8y agoHow did they justify it in Sweden then?
- waterphone 8y agoJust because another country does something stupid doesn't make it a good idea. Also, as noted in another comment, the one time this was done in Sweden, it was a fire on a military base. In the U.S., cultural resource protection is one of the considerations in wildlands firefighting, and a significant number of wildfires in the U.S. west occur within designated Wilderness areas where minimum impact suppression efforts are required by law. This means, e.g., you can't run a bulldozer through to cut a fireline in Wilderness, and in some cases can't even drop slurry because it might cause permanent staining on rock outcrops, damaging a natural resource. Dropping weapons-grade bombs is going to be a non-starter, as it should be.
- briandear 8y agoWeird. Because there are all sorts of bulldozing at work right now in the California wildfires: https://www.ocregister.com/2016/07/13/these-bulldozers-are-firefighters-too-plowing-through-dirt-and-danger/ https://www.ocregister.com/2016/07/13/these-bulldozers-are-f...
- waterphone 8y agoBulldozers are used in fireline construction, but not in designated Wilderness areas. Wilderness restrictions were one example of why this is a bad idea, but they are not the only reason.
- Taniwha 8y agoThe fire was in a military weapons area, there were unexploded ordinance there making normal fire fighting difficult .... on the other hand it was likely easy to get permission to drop another bomb there