Posted on 01/11/2025 4:06:53 PM PST by TigerClaws
The Pacific Palisades house that 65-year old local resident John Carr lives in is one of just a handful of properties that's still standing, after the Palisades wildfire ripped through the neighborhood this week, leaving the community virtually unrecognizable.
Life is largely a total crap-shoot.
Sometimes way more than other times.
I’m gonna be working on fire proofing my house and garage this Spring.
I live part way up a 45 deg, hill in a Pine Forest. No shortage of action to take.
Good guy. Old school man
Metal or ceramic/ceramic coated roof will go a LONG way.
His reasons for sticking it out were logical. And he saved the homes of two neighbors. For him, the risk was worth it.
I used to live in the Cumberland Plateau in just such an environment. Rural means volunteer fire department. But was younger back then. Dunno 'bout now.
My garage is good with cement/concrete tiles/shingles, but the previous owner replaced those on the house with asphalt.
Retarded he was...
at the end of the video he says he saved two neighbor homes as well as his own. Also says there were 0 firetrucks, believes it wouldn’t have taken much to save many homes
Garden hoses won’t do it. A swimming pool and a pump system powered by gas would save the home. But then wha do I know?
Had I owned such a property as that I would have commercial duty water pumps with 6 inch hoses that I could submerse in the ocean. "Water cannon" kind of setup.
“Rural means volunteer fire department”
That’s what we got, but we do have fire hydrants, but with a limited reservoir supply on somewhat higher ground.
I’m thinking I need an above ground pool with a pump and high flow sprinklers along with sealing the house totally off from any openings..
It looked like he used a garden hose.
“A swimming pool and a pump system powered by gas would save the home...”
Some fam in LA did that successfully. [They may have had access to two pools.]
I’ll have to go back to try to find the Vid.
**Had I owned such a property as that I would have commercial duty water pumps with 6 inch hoses that I could submerse in the ocean. “Water cannon” kind of setup.**
I dunno. Now they can hire the best contractors and architects to build something better to their own tastes. They can afford it. I’m sure they’ll buy the pumps for their new homes. They’ll even install a dock and a rock-like pier to cover the 6” metal hoses. they only need to live to see the finished product.
Saw someone that did that out there. Generator, pump, extensive irrigation system, swimming pool. House saved.
He’ll probably have to serve time for daring to defy ‘our democracy.’
It occurs to me that a gasoline pressure washer pump, with a feed from a pool or pond, might be useful in areas of extreme fire risk. Priming the pump would be the hardest part.
If the fire hydrants are dry,
so is your garden hose and your toilet.
At least that story. Poor people. This guys father was smart.
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