Well the title is the question.
With ‘split’ I mean create some space between blocks where fire has nothing to travel to the next block to spread.
I imagine that actions like dropping water with helicopters would also be unnecessary since we could ‘give up’ a burning block and then the fire would be over.
Or am I too naive about it?
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Yes, OP, a little naive.
Wildfires do not happen only when there’s no wind, lot’s of humidty and in non-drought years. Even if there’s no wind at the start, fires create their own wind. This is found in the “chimney effect” where a fire is burning in a canyon, it is sucking in so much oxygen that a wind is created going into the canyon and all of it shoots out the top which gives us those smoke clouds that look like volcanoes.
When that happens, large debris gets easily sucked up and is sent up. If it doesn’t burn itself up, a smoldering leaf or weed could float down hundreds of feet away igniting a new wildfire.
The really big fires can easily jump hundreds of feet if a strong wind is blowing, becoming blowtorches of embers setting off fires across a firebreak.
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