You took what I said out of context. I said, "add more 747's and other modern aircraft."
We hire Evergreen for the 747's. They use 747's in addition to old WWII prop planes.
Understand?
Would jet planes fair well fighting fires though? I think they use prop planes for a reason. All that ash, and also possibility of injesting lot of water and floating debris during water scooping.
Been watching a lot of that footage, freaking scary, imagine being in that traffic, you don't really know what's ahead, but pretty much just have to keep going and hope for the best.
It's shocking how much has gone away.
I hope the good seafood place there made it , but it backed onto the trees.....
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Prop planes are better because of their 'low speed' ability.
An airplane cannot scoop water from a lake at 150 knots.They explode.
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Prop planes are better because of their 'low speed' ability.
An airplane cannot scoop water from a lake at 150 knots.They explode.
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Seafood in Fort Mac? Does not compute.
The report says about 1,600 buildings were completely burned by Thursday as a result of the Fort McMurray wildfire, four times the loss in the Slave Lake wildfire of May 2011 that led to Canadian insurance industry losses of more than $700 million.
Some video footage from a firetruck. Insane. Everything just levelled. Those new Canada Post mailboxes are freaking tough though!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbLRbgsJCZc&feature=youtu.be
Ten car pile-up near the beginning with cars on top of one another? I'm assuming something heavy came by earlier to clear the road...
Just heard on the news the oil companies are laying off people, that's ridiculous, this is temporary, it's not like production will be affected for ever. Pretty much a huge slap in the face for those that worked there. Now they have to deal with trying to find another job after all this.
Given the amount of Newfies there, it makes perfect sense.
There is only 1 highway in and out of town, 60k+ residents, the fire was under control at one time, when it did flare up again it spread ridiculously fast, you just don't call for evacuation all willy nilly.
Put 1 and 2 together and its criminal that the officials didn't demand evacuation earlier -- and that's a fact!
Yes, one road, but that one road should have been able to move everyone in about 4 hours -- it looks to me like almost no one began to leave until the fire was burning there neighbors home. Here's some facts:
1. The trees and other foliage is bone dry and you can see in many of the videos just how fast the fire can move and how quickly it goes from a few branches burning to the whole tree flaring up in bonfire. Knowing how dry things are means you have to be prepared if the conditions drive winds towards you.
2. The weather report surely indicated that the winds would blow towards town.
Put 1 and 2 together and its criminal that the officials didn't demand evacuation earlier -- and that's a fact!
Brian
IDK. From the few clips I've seen, it looks like most of the forest is pine. Dry pine is the worst. The sap is really flammable. So is wood, yes, I know. But the sap vaporized and helps spread the fire because now you have this flaming gas every place.Those kinds of conditions exist in many places every year. You can't just order people to evacuate on a whim. They had no idea it could get this bad this quickly.
Those kinds of conditions exist in many places every year. You can't just order people to evacuate on a whim. They had no idea it could get this bad this quickly.
Perhaps, but then this place had an out of control wildfire a for a number of days before hand.
But, anyplace else that's fuel rich and tinder dry that also has a wildfire nearby ought to be planning to move to...
Brian