What are some solution to forest fires?

Question

I need solution to forest fires and techniques that can extinguish them

Answer 1

The current problem with massive fires started when people started "managing" forests by preventing all forest fires, allowing brush and undergrowth to accumulate to dangerous levels. We can't prevent all forest fires - what we can do is stop putting ourselves in harm's way - stop building houses in fire-prone areas, and when we do build in those area, use fireproof construction techniques - there are many techniques available today, such as monolithic domes and rammed-earth construction, that would resist fires, but most builders are too greedy to use them (they can keep building tinderbox homes every season with the way things stand now)

Answer 2

Well if it is a small fire you should go from the outside in. That way you can almost guarantee that the fire can't escape. Another thing that you could do would use the foam that they use on burning airplanes and tanker trucks. I am not an expert on fighting forest fires but I think this next thing might work. If people have ceder shingles then have the roofing company install sprinklers on the top of the roof so that the ember that lands on top of the house won't burn through. Also recommend the metal roofs that make the ping-ping noise when the rain falls down. Also recommend the asphalt roofs because those ignite at a very high temperature.

Answer 3

We could build a great big sprinkler system like they have in my office and whenever there was a fire it would trigger the sprinklers. Just kidding. In reality, I am more of a conservationist than that. I love the forest, desert, grasslands, etc and in fact fires are a natural cycle to maintain healthy forests. Some plants won't germinate without a fire. I think these California fires are partly natural and partly the result of bad management. They are bad management because the forest service is too reticent about clearing brush and using controlled burns. They don't let natural fires burn and therefore many places are overgrown and unhealthy. When it is a hundred degrees and dry like now these fires can rage. We are really lucky it isn't windy too.

Answer 4

well all forests require a little different approach dependnig on what type of fules are presents.... fight fire with fire is good , back burning . however that can only be used at certain times. in my expeience the best thing to do is to remove fuels before the fire is going... thinning the forest. it doesn't matter if the tree are 20 years old or 200. thinning reduces the fules and therefore the fires of the future have less to run with. if you have never walked a fire line in a national forest and watched 200 year old trees cut and layed to waste then you might not understand. however, remove those trees ahead of time and you will in turn produce money to fight the fire and reduce fuels for the fire.. controlled burns is also a good way to fight the fire ahead of time.. by burning off all the ground fuels you take away alot of the fires strenght and it will not move so fast... over all i say thin the forest remove the marketable timber and burn it after ... thats the best way

Answer 5

Forest ecosystems cannot be in a natural state without fires. These fires, started by lightening or maybe just spontaneous combustion during extremely dry and hot periods, have been burning for millions of years, clearing out underbrush and overgrowth. That is why a modern managed forest is often chocked with underbrush to the point that you can't walk through it.

Answer 6

Clearing "avenues" some 20 meters wide through the forest and keeping them clean from anything, but grass (or even removing a highly flammable topsoil from there), can be a good preventive measure, because fire, even when it started already, cannot "jump" over those clearings or go via grass and soil. But then, some regular forest sires are actually beneficial for the forests, and, if controlled, can be practised by forestry agencies to help forest "clean" itself and for some tree species to propagate.

Answer 7

Control burns are great preventative control. Firebreaks should be maintained and the public educated about fire safety.

Most forest fires spread quickly and need trained teams of firemen to fight them, small spot fires can be smothered and extinguished with water if you have any.

Answer 8

let them burn.....save life then property and let the bugger burn it will be more beneficial for the environment and a lot less likely to turn into a wild fire if the underbrush is allowed to burn .....look and see what has happened to land that burned last season and the season before that..nature can look after herself

Answer 9

Don't start them in the first place?! Ba-da-boom...CCCHHHH!

I kid of course. Forrest fires are very serious and I would never make fun of them.

Answer 10

gather those biogradable matters (not the trees)and place them all in bio gas digesters to gather their energy sources and use them accordingly.