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I think the future of fires needs to be the following: send the 5000 men when it's only 1000 acres, not 400k acres. So detect fast and respond faster. Or heck 2

• mikepurvis 5y ago
  Generally, yes. But this also depends on having the sensing in place to detect and respond to them quickly when they start in very remote locations. Plus, of course, the whole argument that we actually need to be moving the other direction— toward a larger number of small annual burns rather always putting out so that the forest becomes a tinderbox after decades of never burning.
  • oyashirochama 5y ago
    Combined with invasive eucalyptus that thrives by burning.
• cmurf 5y ago
  That's part of why the fires are so bad. Enormous amounts of excess fuel built up from decades of putting fires out every time they pop up.
• pixl97 5y ago
  Many of these fires are over 1000 acres in the first 8 hours. How are you supposed to get 5000 men there that fast?
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• caseysoftware 5y ago
  That sounds like a great goal but isn't very feasible. 1000 acres is ~1.5 square miles Depending on how well the forest, etc has been maintained, cleared of brush, etc, a fire can move as much as 10-15 miles/hour. At 10mph, it would travel 1.5 miles in 9 minutes. At 15 mph, it's down to 6 minutes. At least one fire was moving up to 17 miles/hour here in Texas in 2011.
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