You're off by a few orders of magnitude. It's more like 50,000, and that would only work for a very small fire. Water is heavy and it takes a lot of it to coun

You're off by a few orders of magnitude. It's more like 50,000, and that would only work for a very small fire. Water is heavy and it takes a lot of it to counteract the heat generated by a wildland fire. Which is why water is not the primary tool for fighting wildland fires: McLeods, chainsaws, and bulldozers are. Fuel removal along a one-dimensional perimeter is much easier than bringing in massive quantities of water across a huge two-dimensional area.