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California Wildfires

There's a wildfire in California today and it made me wonder: I know that there's a shortage of freshwater in California, so do the firefighters use sea water to extinguish the wildfire? Or is the salt too harmful for the environment for that, so they use fresh water?


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I bat they use fresh water for simple reasons: The firebrigades connect their pipes to the water system.  That system supplies fresh water (we don't have a salt water system.....  much too expensive to built it for fires only).  The sea water is very corrossive and might harm the trucks, and do much harm to nature (will kill almost anything).  Sea water can't be stored in the trucks (unlike fresh water).   So the logistic to use sea water is by far too complicated / expensive.  I hope those terrible wildfires will come to an end soon.
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I remember a Beverly Hills 90210 episode where there was a big fire, and they used both drinking water and sea water to put it out.

I realize this is not really a source of information, but still it might indicate the usual habits. 


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