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Originally Posted by Locke
Yeah...well...I could also do a real quick 'back-of-the-napkin' Cost/Benefit analysis on the costs of fire fighting, water bombers, over-working emergency services, property damage, loss of tourist revenue etc.
Methinks the benefits would start outweighing the costs pretty damned quickly.
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Google says NYC's fireboat(s) costs $27mm and fires 50,000gpm, ~200m... The math seems pretty straightforward, but then you have to wonder how many boats you'd need on the Okanagan to be effective? Then your idle time liability becomes that much higher... Then there's the other lakes (I don't imagine a boat like that would be easily transported between lakes???)...
Still a drop in the bucket compared to the loses we'll see from these fires, but, well, people are stupid.