This devastation in the Los Angeles area is a pretty glaring example of what can go wrong.
A few years ago Jason Douglass did all the research to get a list of the appropriate parts to be able to connect our individual water tanks to the portable water pumps that are all around the island. I read a story this morning about a family in LA, in the path of the fire, that used a generator, portable water pump, and a fire hose to draw water out of their swimming pool in order to keep their home and the surrounding plant growth wet. Their home was spared, while those around them burned down.
The moral to this story is let’s all redouble our efforts to make the water reserves that we all have available to fight a fire, or protect a structure in the path of a fire. No Mary the moral of the story is not to put in a pool!!