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<blockquote data-quote="RobGMN" data-source="post: 8888231" data-attributes="member: 683408">I was throwing a touch of reality into the discussion. The top dog always takes the blame and the praise, but the reality is that the frontliners are the ones who handle the issue.Everyone not involved has great (/s) solutions, like having 10,000 water tanker trucks on standby (who drives them? who maintains them? who fills them? where do they store them?), massive desalination plants to get fresh water (at what cost? who pays the startup costs? where does the brine go?), and &quot;pump it from the ocean to fight the fire&quot; (as if you just drop a sump pump &quot;in the ocean&quot; and run a hose 1-15 miles or more to the west side of the fire).Then you have people stating that there is a firefighter shortage, but simultaneously complaining that budgets are subsequently shrinking.&#039;Not sure about you, but if I&#039;m employing less people in a department, I&#039;m shrinking that departmental budget, and the money is gelling allocated elsewhere. Business 101.But don&#039;t ya&#039; think it&#039;s weird that no one in California can figure it out, when so many online pundits know EXACLTY what to do??It&#039;s kinda&#039; like COVID, when every Joe Blow who &quot;did their own research&quot; and knew the vaccine/masks/lockdowns were wrong somehow, but not a SINGLE one of them offered a real solution or an alternative to what was being done.Funny how that works, eh?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RobGMN, post: 8888231, member: 683408"] I was throwing a touch of reality into the discussion. The top dog always takes the blame and the praise, but the reality is that the frontliners are the ones who handle the issue. Everyone not involved has great (/s) solutions, like having 10,000 water tanker trucks on standby (who drives them? who maintains them? who fills them? where do they store them?), massive desalination plants to get fresh water (at what cost? who pays the startup costs? where does the brine go?), and "pump it from the ocean to fight the fire" (as if you just drop a sump pump "in the ocean" and run a hose 1-15 miles or more to the west side of the fire). Then you have people stating that there is a firefighter shortage, but simultaneously complaining that budgets are subsequently shrinking. 'Not sure about you, but if I'm employing less people in a department, I'm shrinking that departmental budget, and the money is gelling allocated elsewhere. Business 101. But don't ya' think it's weird that no one in California can figure it out, when so many online pundits know EXACLTY what to do?? It's kinda' like COVID, when every Joe Blow who "did their own research" and knew the vaccine/masks/lockdowns were wrong somehow, but not a SINGLE one of them offered a real solution or an alternative to what was being done. Funny how that works, eh? [/QUOTE]

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