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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. From the “there are no new ideas” file:
apple.news: This L.A. dad vowed he’d be ready for fires. His plan saved his home This L.A. dad vowed he’d be ready for fires. His plan saved his home — and others
Neil Desai learned a lesson four years ago when a fire came precariously close to his family’s house. He geared up. Some homeowners turn to garden hoses in the face of a potential wildfire. Desai had bigger plans.
He pulled out an array of mobile sprinklers he’d set on tripods, placing three in the backyard of his home and two on the tile roof. The 60-year-old attached a 2-inch hose to a pump by his backyard pool and fired up the generator to power it as his wife left and his son went to school. Yes, the guy saved his house by having a portable generator, a pump, a swimming pool full of water, and several tripod hose sprayers. Owing to a close call years before he also had some fire retardant aero-gel in the garage, which he mixed in a hot tub to provide a slurry so it would “stick” to the house a little longer.
Good pictures with the story for those who can access it.
