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Re:The Drones and Robots That Helped Save Notre Dame by melling on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @01:02PM (#19684334)
Then why do we send in firefighters?

I didn't say we should stop the forest fires, I said we want to control them. Almost 100 people died in California last year and there was $3.5 billion in damage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_California_wildfires

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Re:The Drones and Robots That Helped Save Notre Dame by lm28469 on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @01:23PM (#19684516)
Yes we do try to control them, but that's a last resort, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EodxubsO8EI

Same problem with Texas and floods, Florida and hurricanes, &c. building in risk zones is inherently dangerous. The people who died knew the risks.

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