I think it's quite cool to have a big chunk of the north on fire. We don't get enough of this sort of spectacular natural disaster in this country. And it's not like it's happening anywhere good or important, so I'm all in favour.
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I think it's quite cool to have a big chunk of the north on fire. We don't get enough of this sort of spectacular natural disaster in this country. And it's not like it's happening anywhere good or important, so I'm all in favour.
In Südafrika we have this problem a lot. The solution tends to be a simple one; three helicopters with massive buckets hanging beneath work in a relay system, ferrying water from the sea/river/lake to the fire & opening the buckets when above it.
This fire would have been sorted within 2 or 3 hours over there. We have plenty of helicopters here - why am I still seeing pictures of people using fire beaters to try and contain it. Clearly that is not going to work, is it?
I have just seen that. Note that they are using 'a' helicopter. You need 3 - 5 working on a relay or the fire just starts up again while the helicopter goes to fetch more water.
Also, the helicopter & bucket they're using is tiny. You need a bucket about 4 times that size & therefore several more powerful helicopters too. We have lots of Chinooks, ffs. They'd be fine for the job so long as there is somewhere to tie the buckets.