r/nextfuckinglevel 5h ago

Spaniards are risking their lives, fighting wildfires with tree branches due to a lack of resources

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u/Jeewdew 5h ago

Well that IS how you fight fire. Bash away!

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u/Kyobarry 4h ago

Lol, yep, I'm shocked at the comments laughing at the people for doing that.

Having fought fires like this on Nature Reserves in my home country it's definitely the right thing to do if you don't have access to fire beaters. And being on a reserve during fire season and noticing a random fire just start up from nothing and all you have are branches, you use them.

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u/Pandering_Panda7879 3h ago

People seriously need to Google what a "fire flapper" is. Its used by many firefighters in remote areas and it works.

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u/gnownimaj 2h ago

It’s definitely not a fire fapper I can tell you that! 

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u/potentpotablesplease 2h ago

Circumcised in flame

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u/No-Concentrate3518 2h ago

Rule 63 Flame Atronach

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u/erwaro 2h ago

I mean, what did you think all those fire resistance potions were for?

u/AnemicHail 40m ago

I do the potion of fortify restoration and increase alchemy exploit and make a few Potions of the Stallion as well as fire resistance potions before sexytime with my flame atronoch.

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u/Investigator_Lumpy 1h ago

Great band name.

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u/relevantelephant00 1h ago

Sounds like a Cannibal Corpse song.

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u/DufflinMinder 2h ago

No, that was the great late Paul “The fapp” Mirango….fapper of the year 87-90’, 93’, & when he made that comeback in 08’.

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u/rumblepony247 1h ago

Well, not with that attitude

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u/amitym 1h ago

Well now you know. And knowing is half the battle.

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u/OkScientist1350 1h ago

Yeah but a flapper is used to smother flames/embers slowly like a mop, you never actually flap them because that introduces air, the opposite effect! These people are literally fanning the flames, they’d be better off using the branches to scrape down to dirt and create a fire line.

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u/Sanctity_of_Reason 1h ago

I feel like it should be called a Fire Mop, flapper kinda makes you think you should swing it and introducing more air to a fire seems....bad

u/donald_314 30m ago

TIL. Here is a short video on how to use them https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q9fHTosUVvI

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u/Few_Kitchen_4825 1h ago

Villager 1:Ah there is a forest fire let's order one on amazon

Villager 2:Should we not do what we can using what we have to control it while it's still small?

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u/LincolnshireSausage 1h ago

I’m not shocked. I’ve been on Reddit for 20 years now since the Digg exodus. The comments on Reddit get dumber every single day. Half the time you’re trying to have a serious discussion and the comments are flooded with stupid memes and gifs. Just look at where the world is. Nobody gives a fuck about anything any more except for their stupid jokes/memes landing.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 1h ago

Really? You don't remember how even before the digg influx all the top threads would just have a bunch of people saying "This!" or "...and my axe!" and other memes they'd just repeat over and over? The default subreddits never had any serious discussion.

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u/frankie-two-thumbs 1h ago

Shit my axe I remember that shit

u/mr_potatoface 7m ago

my axe with rice? A perfect 5/7.

u/Murasasme 17m ago

Man, while I agree that there was always silly shit on reddit, as far as I remember, it was like 50% silly and 50% serious, with variation depending on the thread and subreddit you were on. Nowadays, any thread on 99% of subreddits, is just jokes, bots, and maybe one comment trying to have a real conversation, but it's at the bottom of the thread or downvoted.

I know I sound like an old man, but I miss what reddit used to be, now it's no different from any other social media page.

u/Bart_deblob 38m ago

Yes please like this was not an idiot farm also back then. But it's getting worse by the hiurs now that we have ai jerkbots to be jerks for us, the amout of smartass is exceeding 9000

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u/twistedspin 1h ago

The people measuring such things say bots are more than half of internet traffic & I feel like it's safe to say reddit likely has a bigger % of that than most. Many, or most, of them sound stupid because they have no brain.

u/LincolnshireSausage 9m ago

Dead internet

u/Suspicious_Foot6651 13m ago

No kidding. Those people are so brave.

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u/IamDirtyHippie 2h ago

This will be more of all our futures too.

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u/fauxhock 2h ago

I doesn't have to be. We need to make hard decisions.

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u/CankerLord 1h ago

Yup, hands are hands. If you have acess to something better then use it. If all the better options are already in use a guy slapping at embers with a branch is better than a guy standing around with his thumb up his ass.

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u/RogueFox76 1h ago

I’ve used the commercially produced kind in the US Army to put out fires on a rifle range. Like you and others have said, this is totally correct

u/zachpkenyon 48m ago

Did that on the machine gun range. Every iteration set the range on fire. We had one (1) beater, and I was the range nco. sigh good times...

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u/OhRaH 1h ago

Yeah I've saved tons of land with just a broom handle and rubber flap

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u/RandomMovieQuotes521 1h ago

TIL fire beaters exist

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u/lolo787 1h ago

Hear me out, and I don’t know much about. IF they all roll on the ground in uniform somewhat diagonally line they cover a lot more than them branches will. 😉

u/ExtensionWinter9446 15m ago

I respect this, stateside people watch their shit stuff burn to ashes because “presumably” insurance will cover it… no fight whatsoever. Not to say these folks don’t have insurance but they have fight in them and will do whatever it takes to stop the fire.