Call me simple but I'm not buying this whole no water problem. Hell the Pacific Ocean is right there, I could McGyver a pump system to move water from point A-B so surely there's a group of engineers that can figure this one out.

The mountains around LA are definitely rugged and the over your head high manzanita and chaparral makes travel very slow.

I’ve been down there a few times in the fall when these winds are blowing with a crew. Between LA co and Cal fire they have a lot of skill protecting structures a lot of times 20 person crews will work alongside them to do clearing and improvements around houses, sometimes deploying sprinkler systems. Burning out around houses ahead of the main fire getting there, etc.

You’ll probably continue to see the fires increase in size until dozer lines get put in on ridges that are advantageous for crews to burn off, that can take a lot of time. These fires often get fought with indirect attack, burning out, and holding.

Contrary to a lot of the negatives in the news,California is quite well equipped to fight these sorts of fires, they have skilled fighters, they employ quite aggressive tactics to include running helicopters with buckets at night, something not done anywhere else in the world. Contrary to what trump is twittering, there are a good amount of aerial resources assigned down there, including some Canadair 215’s the scooper planes, that are quite effective in that area of brush.

I’m not sure what to think about the empty fire hydrants and whatever, that seems strange. Newsom and the mayor certainly aren’t going to do anything. I remember when Arnold came out to a fire we were on, what a clown show, but good for morale, haha.

When I’ve been there we used a lot of swimming pools, but water isn’t the cure, unfortunately

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