From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 13:14:22 +0800
To: jf_avon@citenet.net (Jean-Francois Avon)
Subject: Re: Hallam-Baker demands more repudiations or he'll write!
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> On 25 Sep 96 at 5:59, Brian Davis wrote:
> > I disagree that that will be the response, but you should be willing
> > to allow one group of people to fight fire with fire.
> But generally, it has been found a much better solution to fight fire
> with water, and this is why I am not convinced of the ideological 
> effectiveness of AP, although I don't doubt it's operationnal 
> effectiveness at all.
 
     Having been a firefighter for about 4 years, I can say that for 
small fires water works quite a bit better. For larger fires (over a
hundred acres or so) setting a backfire, or burning out the fuel in the
direction the fire is probably going to go is a hell of a lot easier than
hauling millons and millions of gallons or blood^h^h^h^h^h water.

Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@smoke.suba.com