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We fight fires with fire, foam, chemical sprays and dustings of something. We even have fire extinguishers in homes and other buildings.However, when it comes to putting out fires in these places, we rely on water hoses, fire hoses filled with water and overhead sprinklers that are like using a shotgun approach to hit a bullseye.
Of course the result is just as much damage as the fire would have caused since most house fires result in the use of 3,000 gallons of water or what one person uses in six months.
Why don't fire trucks and building sprinklers contain the same stuff that is in fire extinguishers, or what they drop from helicopters or what they use on airplanes?
On second thought, whether it is a fire retardant, suppressant, chemical or foam, all of them are most certainly toxic, including tap and big tap (hydrant) water. (tap water is tep water)
This leaves us with prevention, early warning and confinement as the best trinity method. Prevention and confinement starts with building materials and systems built into homes and buildings as standard equipment to detect fire, sound loud alarms, which if not shut off in a certain amount of time via verbal command, releases fire retardants, calls fire departments and owners/occupants.So think about it. We fight fires with water but we don't fight water with fire.
Instead we fight water with earth in several forms as earth, rocks, concrete, cement and also as sand, bags of sand stacked yea high. You can sense where this is going. What if we primarily fought house fires with damp sand blasts from hoses with less volume per second output than water firehoses? There'd be a lot less damage caused by water flowing and going everywhere. Damp sand would dry out and be easier to clean up. Many household items could be simply washed off, after using shovels and an industrial vacuum to suck out most of the sand. There has to be several business opportunities in this.
Some have considered fighting fires with sound waves (pump up the bass).
https://www.dell.com/en-us/perspectives/fighting-fire-with-bass-using-sound-waves-to-drown-flames/
Real problem is, fire is not the problem we should be fighting.
We build flammable things filled with flammable things and then put within them many sources of heat, sparks and ignition.On related notes we build things in low places and obliterate landscapes and are still surprised when the water rises above our see level and floods our natural world contrarian riparian dreams as we merrily go along as drones pledging allegiance to national songs.
We build things in windy place and are surprised when the wind rises.
We build things near coasts and are surprised when water and wind rise but the buidlings don't float.
We build things near volcanoes and are surprised when vulcan rises.
We build things on shaky ground and are surprised when things cave in or fall down.
We build things near malnourished trees we perceive as beauty and are surprised when trees malnourished fall on things we more truly cherish. We cherish the way we go astray.
We build things on or near hillsides deprived of what keeps them alive and are surprised when they slide.
In this madness, the only sensible thing left to do is fight house fires with water.