Originally Posted by pittsburghracer


How much clean lake water is consumed every year fighting forest fires. Couldn’t sea water at least be pumped inland for jobs like this.


They actually use very little water for fighting fires, more building of fire breaks, fire retardant, back fires... and when water is used it is taken from the nearest source, when the forest service intentionally made a 20 acre lightning fire into a 40,000 acre intentional fire next door to my house last summer they were scooping water between 1/10th and 1/2 mile away, it would take unimaginable resources to build a pool of ocean water reserves even every mile or so everywhere there might be a fire someday.


I am not causing global warming, I am just trying to hold off a impending Ice Age!