Can Seawater Fight Fires in SoCal | Why No Water | Fireboats | Damage From Seawater (Incredible Vid!)

Sal has an excellent discussion of San Francisco's water system design for fighting fires, limitations in most systems, and the use of seawater.

Also, at 15:15 in the vid is the most terrifying several seconds I have seen out of these fires. Clearly, in all this, there were moments where humans would be outmatched even if everything had been done right...

Didn’t the Romans destroy Carthage by spreading salt on their land?

Wasn’t there a ‘super scooper’ that did just this this weekend?

Also, I heard California won’t allow lakes to be used for a water source for wildfires. I haven’t verified.

I’m not interested in 18 minutes of a diatribe.

I’m not interested in 18 minutes of a diatribe.

Thanks for alerting us to this important information.

I thought sea water scooper planes were already in use....just grounded, in this fire, by Greasy Newscum.

Watched from 15. Interesting. Heavy wind blowing sparks from a McDonald’s on fire. He seems quite knowledgeable. Thanks.

Sal should strict to history. Like most “intellectuals” he wrongly thinks his degree makes him an expert on everything

Why across the SW and TX with similar eco systems does no one else have this much trouble with forestry, and water, management as CA has for 2 decades

No, this is a political and a structural problem. The nonsense about “even if they did everything right” is nonsensical

They can’t do “everything right” because the political structure in place has failed for 2 decades to make the required decisions to make the structural changes to set them up for success.

The Roman spreading salt on an area thing was ceremonial, more like a curse. But back then, salt was way too valuable to spread across an area. The word salary literally comes from the Latin Sal, leaning salt. Roman soldiers were paid in it.

Yes, salt water can be used to fight forest fires. Then, after the forest fire, you plant alfalfa or Alaskan Lupine to absorb the salt and then plant trees a couple of years from that point.

It may not be rocket science, but it is know how to regrow forests, in the event of a fire.

Somebody tell Michael Bloomberg.