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Normally one wants to stop the spread of fire to prevent houses from being burned down.
by baggy_trough 3y ago
Normally one wants to stop the spread of fire to prevent houses from being burned down.
- threeseed 3y agoNo. The priority is to save lives. Using water to help isolate an area that is used for evacuation is much more important than saving a few houses which are likely to be insured and can be simply rebuilt.
- baggy_trough 3y agoThey go together usually.
- dave78 3y agoYour comment seems woefully out of touch given what happened in Hawaii. Water was not denied because "saving lives was more important than saving houses". ~1000 people burned to death and the fire department requested more water to help fight the fire and they were put off for 5 hours, by which time the pipes that could transport the water were ruined.
- wunderland 3y agoHas it really killed that many people? I thought it was only 100+ but maybe the nearly 900 missing person are presumed dead now?
- dave78 3y agoI guess I'm making an assumption that the 850 or so missing people are dead. I don't know that, but unfortunately it seems like a safe assumption. Reporters who have managed to get near the affected area are saying that there are dead bodies lining the streets. I truly hope my assumption is wrong and that those 800 people are safe, but it just doesn't seem likely to me given what we know.
- afgrant 3y agoHouses are tightly coupled to lives. Even if you escape the house, you might not survive the smoke inhalation from the surrounding trees.