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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Yeah i mean thats pretty naive. Have you even considered the time/recourses it would take to even plan, let a long execute that? I could list a few reasons why that wouldn’t work and only a few of them would be political. I mean the gaps would have to be HUGE to really be effective, like probably 1000ft wide for assurance and that would take a long time just to clear, and those gaps would have to be frequently maintained after the fact. Also, given that a lot of these fires take place in the hill/mountainous West, you couldn’t just do a straight grid, you’d probably have to design around the topography which means a surveyor would have to go out and do that for whatever land area you’re doing this for, that alone could take over a year depending on the area of land you’re thinking about. There’d be so many legal hoops to jump through, probably on all levels of government. And you’d have property owners to deal with.
As some have pointed out, this concept does exist but you don’t often because it’s just not always the most practical solution.
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