Re: Reality Star Spencer Pratt Sues City Of L.A. After His Home Burns Down

On 2025-01-27 5:24 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Jan 27, 2025 at 2:07:00 PM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
 

On 2025-01-27 3:04 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

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  Meanwhile, the fire department is doing now in anticipation of more high
winds
  what they didn't do back in early January and pre-positioning firefighters
and
  equipment in areas of high fire risk.
    That's gotta be giving their lawyers heartburn, because by doing so, they're
  tacitly admitting it's what they should have done in the first place and
  failed to do, which isn't going to be good for them when all the lawsuits
  start hitting the courts.

>
Have the reservoirs been refilled yet?

 Nope. Still empty. No one will say why.
 

If not, I'm not sure what good
pre-positioning firefighters and gear is going to do since they can't do
much without water.

 The three million-gallon tanks they initially used have been refilled but the
Santa Ynez reservoir is still empty. That means they'll have another 17 hours
of water in case of another fire before the hydrants run dry again.
 

Also, is anyone giving thought to converting the equipment so that it
works with sea water? According to an article I read, they can't really
use sea water because it damages the equipment, at least in the long
term. I can't help but wonder if the equipment could be coated or
treated with something so that it better resists the damage caused by
salt water.

 Sea water isn't ideal because pouring it all over the hills kills the soil so
nothing will regrow and it damages things like stormwater drains. When you
have an absolute emergency, like they did several weeks ago, and all the
freshwater options are gone because of Karen Bass's spectacular incompetence,
then yes, dipping one of those superscooper planes into the ocean might be
your last resort, but it should never come to that.
 

Thank you. Now I understand that sea water is only ever going to be a last resort.

What needs to happen is that a desalination plant needs to be constructed
somewhere along the coast near where these fires occur (Point Mugu or Point
Dume would be ideal) and a pumping station built so that freshwater can be
sent from it up to existing reservoirs. This is what a government actually
concerned with mitigating fires would do. Not hand out billions of dollars to
the drug addicts and mental patients who *start* 14,000 fires/year in L.A.
 

Maybe Karen Bass can get her many friends in Africa to build that desalination plant and pumping station using all that amazing technology the Africans figured out many centuries ago? I have it on good (?) authority that the African cultures were far more advanced before the Europeans colonized Africa than even the best Western tech is today so we might as well use her connections to get out of this situation....
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Rhino