THEORY: To find a better way to fight Interface Forest fires. Currently our efforts to fight wildfires has been limited to methods developed in the 19th century. Here are four methods to fight wildfires safely and effectively. Saving homes and entire subdivisions alike. Three new methods not being used today.
DATE of ORIGIN: November, 28th, 2017.
DESCRIPTION: With today’s technology, fire trucks have become larger and ladders have become longer, but the approach to firefighting is the same. If you found out that there were better ways of civic planning that would save 
all the homes that have been lost over years to fires, would it be criminal that proper planning was not done in the first place? How can this be allowed to happen when better planning and better by-laws would have saved everything?
Here are three very good ways to fight fires and one old one that should be expanded, but they require giving up control over who fights the fires. It’s about sharing the responsibility and expanding capability. It’s time to start training and equipping others that know the area around which they live.
1. Enabling those who live in the area to protect themselves
Very often these interface fires are located in rural areas. From California to British Columbia, the fires that do the most economic damage are the interface fires. The forest fires that cross into habitable and industrial zones.
There is no excuses for not being able to put out a grass or shrub fire. Every small community has all the equipment needed to put out these types of fires. No matter how big they are. The problem is lack of coordination and will to share the authority.
As seen here ranchers and farmers have all the tools needed to fight grass and brush fires. Instead of telling the ranchers to leave, they should be organized similar to 
a volunteer fire department. Trained to protect their own property.
At the beginning of fire season all the equipment 
that is not needed in the fields should be on wagons or trailers and organized such that when it is needed it is ready to move. Every small town that is surrounded by farms should have a fire fighting plan that includes the man power, the irrigation equipment, the pumps and pre-drilled, designated wells around the community.
Starting with planning what side of the town that my be in the most danger. Then drill wells and have pumps in concrete shelters ready for use. This way miles of irrigation sprinklers could be set up in very short notice.
With the millions of dollars spent, and the billions of dollars lost, it is time to spend the money where it will do the most good. Empower the local farmers and ranchers.
2. Design Subdivisions, Neighborhoods and Homes properly
Fire hydrants and water mains are installed in the wrong place. They are installed for fireman to use in conjunction with fire trucks, from the road. If subdivisions were 
designed properly and had fire hydrants on the perimeter, then we would be protected from interface fires. In fact, if subdivisions were designed properly then we would have 24/7 protection with little or no additional cost.
The problem is that all water mains and hydrants are in the wrong place to fight interface fires. They are in the center of the subdivisions when they should also be around the perimeter. The hydrants should be between the houses and the interface forest.
If the fire hydrants were in the right place and the right distance apart, then they could be mounted with water cannons. With fire hydrants every 50-70 meters apart. Each one mounted with a three meter tripod tower with a water cannon on top. Water cannons, with the same water pressure in most hydrants, can shoot water 25-35 meters in a circular fashion. Giving a 50-70 meter circle of defense, going over the houses and forest alike.
Fire hydrants and water cannons pre-installed right where they are needed. Proper planning would provide complete perimeter protection. Bluetooth technology could control the hydraunts so man power would be at risk. With the cannons mounted on three meters towers and automatically turned on by a central command would save manpower.
This is a question of city planning. We have by-laws that state it is necessary to have sprinklers in our homes but not “on” our homes. If it was required that all buildings had to have sprinklers on the corners of the roof, than there would be no property loss. It should be that if you do not have sprinklers on the outside of your home, you can not get insurance. Remember, water lines are protected from fires because they are buried 
underground.
Homeowners would be able to turn on the outside sprinklers when asked to leave the area or they also could be controlled by bluetooth. With proper resource planning the water could be reserved to fight the advancing fire front only, conserving local water supplies.
With water cannons around the perimeter of the subdivision, and sprinklers 
on the buildings, firefighters would be able to concentrate on the front line. The important issue is that there is no threat to life and property if it wet.
3. Use Water Tankers mounted with Water Cannons
How often have you seen fires licking the side of the road while cars are trying to escape? 
Here is a need for improvement because we have Fire Boats in the harbours, but we do not have any land mobile, fire fighting equivalent.
There are some examples of water tankers mounted with water cannons but
they are limited both in speed and capacity. So the idea is to take a conventional double tanker, highway truck, capable of carrying up to 36 – 40 thousand liters of water, and mount it with the same 
type of water cannon that is on the fire boats.
Here are examples of off-road water tankers.
The states and provinces that are under the constant threat of interface forest fires should have fleets of these machines dispersed throughout their jurisdiction.
The idea would to be to take trucks like the one shown below and add pumps and water cannons to the top of the trucks tanks. We need fleets of these trucks ready for use, and in the right places. We need tools that are going to make a difference. 
These types of trucks would keep fires from jumping across highways and protect those trying to escape.
These rapidly deployed trucks would be way more useful than a conventional fire truck when it comes to interface fires.
4. Use the Air Force to Bomb the front line
Why do we not use all the assets we have?
We ask the forest service to protect our forest on an annual makeshift budget, usually one/ tenth of the actual cost, when we spend billions of 
dollars on national defense. We train our Air Force to protect us against an enemy that never reaches our shores, but don’t use the Air Force to defend ourselves from an enemy within.
It is time to take the technology learned by our national defense and use it against natural enemies like fire. Similar to the way oil wells are extinguished with explosives. We should be using our air force’s technical ability to bomb accurately and extinguish wildfires . In this case with the use of directional cluster bombs.
Only these bombs there would be a product similar to “Tannerite” instead of damaging explosives. Tannerite, is composed of ammonia nitrate, 
basically fertilizer, and aluminum powder. It is used in target shooting and is a high impact explosive, that explodes in an oxygen smothering blast of water vapor. It is harmless in the sense that it will not cause another fire, but powerful, much like a stick of dynamite when it is exploded.
To use as instructed, Tannerite is a binary explosive and must be hit with a
caliber larger than a 22. otherwise it is almost impossible to ignite. It is very safe to work with.
For the purpose of fire fighting, design the Tannerite to have an easier ignition. One that would explode upon reaching a specific temperature. As in being drop into a fire.
These large blasts of Tannerite dropped in cluster bombs along the front line of the forest fire would be effective in knocking back the fire front. Stopping the fire from jumping from tree top to tree top candling. Effectively stunning the front line of the fire. This would allow for conventional forms of fire fighting like water drops to extinguish a less intense fire left behind.
In almost all cases, it is the front line of the fire that we are so helpless to stop. Here is a way to knock back that front line safely and without causing further damage to the situation. Knocking back the front line of these fires is the first step in putting them out.
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