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According to Technology.org, salt can also reduce the cooling effect of water, meaning salt water can be less efficient as a firefighting tool. Salt water also carries a charge better than fresh ...
Some of the firefighting aircraft are only built to carry and disperse fire retardants, not water. And for those that carry water, salt water isn't often used because its salinity can damage ...
Since the 1970s, California’s fire season has gotten longer by an average of 75 days per year, according to a study from the University of California, Merced.
The water of the Salton Sea has a salinity of 44 grams of salt per liter, greater than that of the Pacific Ocean (35 g/L). [81] The lack of an outflow means the Salton Sea does not have a natural stabilization system; it is very dynamic.
From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 14 destructive wildfires affected the Los Angeles metropolitan area and San Diego County in California, United States. [5] The fires were exacerbated by drought conditions, low humidity, a buildup of vegetation from the previous winter, and hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, which in some places reached 100 miles per hour (160 km/h; 45 m/s).
The State Water Project's Suisun Marsh Salinity Control Gates manages tidal flows to limit saltwater intrusion from salty tidal flows. The California's Department of Water Resources built this tidal-flow control gate to limit high saline first introduced from Grizzly Bay and through the Montezuma Slough. [11]
California bureaucrats and politicians didn't set the horrible LA fires. They made them far worse through horrible regulations and a failure to provide water to fight them.
More than 7,500 feet of concrete barriers and more than 6,500 sandbags have been deployed to areas burned in the Palisades Fire in case of debris flows, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced Tuesday.