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An update about today fire suppression activity and a good general overview of the fire so far.
Well you deploy all of your firefighting planes and helicopters. Then you grab anyone in uniform who is duty bound to follow orders and you hand them a shovel.
Except the first night the winds in the Palisades were too strong and erratically gusty to fly anything, especially the kind of daredevil flying necessary to drop water into a fiery maelstrom, in the thick smoke and rugged terrain. So they were limited to a ground attack, which is why so many homes and acres burned. The fact so few people died is a testament to much of the work they did accomplish, saving lives rather than property.
Well you deploy all of your firefighting planes and helicopters. Then you grab anyone in uniform who is duty bound to follow orders and you hand them a shovel.
Which is exactly what’s happening.
Except the first night the winds in the Palisades were too strong and erratically gusty to fly anything, especially the kind of daredevil flying necessary to drop water into a fiery maelstrom, in the thick smoke and rugged terrain. So they were limited to a ground attack, which is why so many homes and acres burned. The fact so few people died is a testament to much of the work they did accomplish, saving lives rather than property.