Thanks Bill, I'll pass that link along.
Many suggestions have come up over the years. Look in this picture to the left of the building, that is a fire water storage tank and there are several around the 100 acre property. It's not hooked up to anything except a fire hose, not for use for anything else. Difficult to tell from the angle of this photo but it is higher than this pic makes it look, bottom of the tank is higher than the roof of the office building. It's basically useless except for a spot fire near the tank and without the winds. It would be suicide for someone to be there in this fire with 70 mph wind gusts during a 2,000+ degree firestorm.
Saturday morning, 12/9/17. First day of clean up.
Not possible to mist the roof or building prior to the fire arriving. 70 mph wind, single digit humidity and you wouldn't even get the roof wet. Next problem is how fast the fire spreads, this one started only a couple of miles from the range. From the time it started it had spread to over 10,000 acres in only a matter of hours. Near where it started is/was a multi million dollar horse ranch with brick buildings and tile roofs. It has city water, fire hydrants and people living on the location, horses burned to death. Moments after overwhelming the horse property it reached ASR/LASC.
Pretty doubtful there will be any extravagant building techniques, building will also no doubt be slow and a bit at a time as the money becomes available. The cost of such things such as dumpsters for clean up (on going right now), blue prints for the building to get permits and the permits themselves is kind of depressing. Then of course is the cost of the building. RB's suggestion of a metal building could be a good one and I'll pass the idea along.
The intensity and the speed of these fires is pretty difficult to comprehend for anyone that hasn't experienced them. I have great respect for the fire fighters that face a completely overwhelming enemy. They have air tankers and the trucks & equipment, thousands of people, the knowledge and skill and still the fire spreads, hundreds of homes burn and countless lives destroyed.
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Many suggestions have come up over the years. Look in this picture to the left of the building, that is a fire water storage tank and there are several around the 100 acre property. It's not hooked up to anything except a fire hose, not for use for anything else. Difficult to tell from the angle of this photo but it is higher than this pic makes it look, bottom of the tank is higher than the roof of the office building. It's basically useless except for a spot fire near the tank and without the winds. It would be suicide for someone to be there in this fire with 70 mph wind gusts during a 2,000+ degree firestorm.
Saturday morning, 12/9/17. First day of clean up.
Not possible to mist the roof or building prior to the fire arriving. 70 mph wind, single digit humidity and you wouldn't even get the roof wet. Next problem is how fast the fire spreads, this one started only a couple of miles from the range. From the time it started it had spread to over 10,000 acres in only a matter of hours. Near where it started is/was a multi million dollar horse ranch with brick buildings and tile roofs. It has city water, fire hydrants and people living on the location, horses burned to death. Moments after overwhelming the horse property it reached ASR/LASC.
Pretty doubtful there will be any extravagant building techniques, building will also no doubt be slow and a bit at a time as the money becomes available. The cost of such things such as dumpsters for clean up (on going right now), blue prints for the building to get permits and the permits themselves is kind of depressing. Then of course is the cost of the building. RB's suggestion of a metal building could be a good one and I'll pass the idea along.
The intensity and the speed of these fires is pretty difficult to comprehend for anyone that hasn't experienced them. I have great respect for the fire fighters that face a completely overwhelming enemy. They have air tankers and the trucks & equipment, thousands of people, the knowledge and skill and still the fire spreads, hundreds of homes burn and countless lives destroyed.
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