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Originally Posted by you&me
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.
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You could probably make a similar case regarding Fire Trucks in Calgary. How often are they being fully utilized? Sure they sit around a lot sucking up tons of cash in maintenance and staffing.
But goddamn...when you need them they're worth every penny! And you will need them.
An 'Ounce of Prevention' and all that?
But for reference I was specifically thinking about the Lahaina fires because it happened right at the Harbour front, you park one of those fireboats 30 yards away a couple of those fireboats would have had that nonsense sorted in no time, the Okanagan is a different sequence of problems.
But still...some industrial pumps being fed a limitless source of water...cant we do better than sending humans with trucks into the blaze? And the water bombing doesnt seem efficient.
And one poster even mentioned it, we're often caught forgetting that the Okanagan valley is a very arid climate...the lakes and the wineries make people forget how dry that valley really is.
Hence why it tends to come ablaze on the regular.
But in the words of the Immortal Bard...Tom Segura..."Some People Suck."