You always see wildlife firefighters with drip torches. I understand they are used to control/suppress fires, but how does that work? Why does it work as a fire suppressant?
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the idea is; that if we can remove as much easily combustible material; we can slow or stop the fire.
its hard for a wildfire to ignite a living tree; its easy for a wildfire to ignite all the dead fallen branches/logs, old leafs, needles. (which then burn enough to ignite the trees) So firefighters can create fire lines that they control to burn back towards the main fire. This should slow or even stop the wildfire spread enough that other containment or extinguishing measures can be taken
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