Reply To: Fires in Israel

Abba_S -“I think it would be a waste of manpower to call the IDF up to fight forest fires with a shovel unless they are trained to do it.”

Actually they would stop the vast destruction!

Have you read the news – they declared a State of Emergency?!?

“Rather have the air force drop rubber bladder full of water on the fires They can also reconfigure the Hercules air plane so that they can suck up water while flying just a few feet above the Mediterranean and then dump it on the fire.”

They are already doing that and got other countries to pitch in.

It’s not enough!

“They can also have the air force dump sand on the fires using transport air craft.”

Sounds like a novel idea, but I doubt it would work!

“I am not a expert in either fighting fires or fighting wars but this seems to be a simple solution to this problem”

But I am an expert in a few things, and one of them is fire safety.

Use bulldozers and shovels and make fire lines! Make sure that the line is big enough so the fire can’t jump over!