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Can’t say that I blame anyone from doing that, but the net effect of thousands of people spraying down their own properties is a drop in water pressure in the mains. Hence, fire hydrants don’t have the necessary pressure to do much good."
Don’t most people around there have swimming pools? If so those should be a great supply of water. Team it up with an on-site generator and a pump and you have your own entirely self contained fire suppression system. No, it wouldn’t do any good in 100 mph winds if the house next door is going up, but if it were me I would already have a pipe to the top of the house with an impact sprinkler that does 360° and just let it run non-stop to wet everything down.
The cost would be a trifle compared to the potential losses. Running at 5 gal/min a 10,000 gallon swimming pool would last a day and a half, maybe more. Crazy idea, maybe, but I’d give it a try.
