To the editor: On this article, David Barrett, govt director of the Los Angeles Regional Fireplace Secure Council, says, “Nothing goes to cease an city wildfire from progressing if it’s wind-driven” (“Will private firefighting gadgets assist or damage in future wildfires?,” July 15). However in a number of Altadena neighborhoods, the fireplace was hit or miss, leaving a mixture of burned and surviving properties. From my vantage level, the fireplace progressed as a bathe of embers, these embers beginning small fires that always grew to burn down the home — or not, particularly if somebody had been there to moist them down. The Minnesota case cited within the article confirmed a 98% success charge for properties with functioning sprinkler programs surviving the fireplace. An easier method for properties with a pool is a gas-powered pump and hearth hose. Our setup price about $1,000. It places out 120 gallons per minute and might totally soak our home and grounds.
I discover the concept that staying behind to battle a fireplace is an issue that places lives in danger is just too pessimistic and too broad. Clearly, staying to battle isn’t for everybody, however some have a protection plan and are going to attempt. Fireplace departments might construct on that willingness and increase neighborhood resilience by coordinating with owners to entry swimming swimming pools for auxiliary water, advising that swimming swimming pools be geared up with hearth pumps, internet hosting citizen hearth coaching, and inspiring level-headed, in a position house owners and neighbors to take part.
Richard Benson, Altadena
