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[–] badbytes 4 points 1 hour ago

Cause, you fight fire with fire.

[–] _stranger_ 12 points 5 hours ago

That's water you stupid basβ€”

[notices where I am]

Excellent work, carry on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Hope you never see an idiot throw flour or powdered milk at an open flame.

[–] amon 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

unpasturised powdered milk

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Is that even relevant?

[–] Thcdenton 4 points 4 hours ago

They're called "Fire Men"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago

We can ask this question from the other direction: why doesn't everywhere else have a flamethrower helicopter?

[–] knightmare1147 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

ate day and a half old pizza last night that gave me upset stomach. Can confirm. I am dieing 😭

[–] [email protected] 37 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

What, you didn't think those huge forest fires occur because of things like, oh, I dunno, climate change or poor management and not allowing smaller natural fires to occur to temporarily benefit some overly rich assholes living in forested areas?

No, flamethrower helicopters!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

We actually use them to clear homeless encampments. Sure, it burns down half the city with the encampment, but it's a small price to pay to make our homeless even more miserable <3

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago

Reject climate action

Embrace flamethrower helicopters

[–] [email protected] -4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This is funny but the helicopters are probably meant for controlled burn stuff, but I have no first hand knowledge about this.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

...You got one thing right

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

I have no firsthand knowledge of this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, they made a flame throwing helicopter?

Perhaps I have misjudged you, California.

looks at their rifles

Never mind, I judged correctly the first time.

Cool helicopter though!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Jokes aside, setting shit on fire is a legit firefighting tactic: The idea is to burn off all the fuel before the actual wildfire can reach it, forming a barrier the fire cannot easily spread over.

High winds obviously complicate this, but it can still work under the right circumstances.

[–] Mirshe 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Also a legit forestry tactic - you set a controlled fire in a part of the forest, and keep it well-controlled, to burn off leaf litter and dead wood that would otherwise easily fuel a wildfire, and to encourage the growth of some species (or discourage others - burning is the only effective way to stop some invasive plant species).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

The ecology of California in general, and in particular the Sierra Nevada, has evolved to expect a wildfire every 10 years or so. Going 100 years (in some places) without a fire was completely beyond anything that ecology had evolved for, and it's no wonder that those areas that hadn't burned in a century got slate-wiped. The native Americans, and later the herdsmen who took over their lands, benefitted from these small vegetation burns and would frequently start and manage them. In the early 1900s, though, the feds (with good intentions, mind) came along and said you can't do that anymore because fire is always bad.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Easy.

To defend the Brotherhood of Nod against the GDI.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Oof this is digging deep, was that from Command and Conquer?

[–] RightHandOfIkaros 1 points 3 hours ago

Yes, I believe the Brotherhood of Nod faction was introduced in the Tiberium Wars game, but its possible I may be wrong. Its been a while since Command & Conquer had a truly new release.

[–] rustyfish 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Next step: Fighter Jets with flamethrowers.

I am heavily disappointed at humanity for not coming up with it until now.

[–] _stranger_ 3 points 5 hours ago

Ok, figuring out how to project a stream of fire ahead of a jet traveling at MACH Speed would be an interesting engineering exercise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Jungle jelly

[–] RoidingOldMan 4 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

This photograph appears to be a helicopter dropping fire retardant on a fire.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Not the hard R, that’s a war crime

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

Damn, bro dropping the r word 😐

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

That seems a horrifically cruel and ableist way to fight fires! Not to mention ineffective.

[–] CEbbinghaus 4 points 12 hours ago

Bet you're the life of the party bud

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

muh firecopter!

The right for Californians to have airborne incendiary delivering capabilities for home defense shall not be impeached! What's the matter with you? Don't you support the 2nd amendment? /s