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To: HalfIrish
Fire officials have announced they'll let it burn. Too dangerous to the personnel to fight it.

This suggests that there may be a lucrative market for a remote-control hose dragger.

23 posted on 08/07/2002 8:39:28 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb
Exactly..... I remember one rig over at Sandia National Labs in NM that was pulling a water tanker with a old M113 APC that had a water cannon mounted on it . All was done remotely.

Seemed to be a very useful tool for just such a fire. I think they were developing it for forest and large city fires ect ect but hey it'd work here very well IMHO.

Stay Safe !

32 posted on 08/07/2002 8:48:31 AM PDT by Squantos
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