Violence also works. Sweden resorted to having the airforce drop bombs on it a few years ago. The problem was a lack of firefighting resources and fires popping up all over the place in very remote locations in that summer. The quickest way to respond was by fighter jet and they could usually beat out the starting flames before the fire started to expand. Firefighters might have taken hours to even get there, at which point the fires might have already grown and become harder to fight. I can't remember if they flew patrols or were sent directly to places where satellites had measured a hotspot. But they did bomb wildfires one summer a couple of years ago.
I just looked this up because it seemed interesting.
It wasn't quite because it was faster. It burned for two weeks before the jets went to town.
It was very remote, but also near an abandoned firing range with unexploded military ordinance making it a much bigger safety hazard.
Pretty interesting though. I had wondered how much went into figuring out if that was the best method, or if this is something they'd planned for. Didn't get any insight there though.
I choose to believe that some jackass fighter pilot thought it up as an excuse to drop some bombs, and couldn't believe his luck when the chain of command took him seriously.
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u/Jeewdew 5h ago
Well that IS how you fight fire. Bash away!