Attempt to plug a wasp nest sparked the biggest wildfire in California history

Re:Attempt to plug a wasp nest sparked the biggest wildfire ... by ducttape12 on Friday June 07, 2019 @05:07PM (#20128620)

This guy must feel horrible. "What if I had just left the wasp nest and went to lunch instead?" "What if I had called 911 earlier?" "What if I had used bug spray instead?"

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Re:Attempt to plug a wasp nest sparked the biggest wildfire ... by ggg2 on Friday June 07, 2019 @09:33PM (#20130050)

"what if I lived in any other country, which requires a fire extinguisher in every car?"

...and most of them aren't even a matchbox like that place.

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Re:Attempt to plug a wasp nest sparked the biggest wildfire ... by nexuist on Saturday June 08, 2019 @12:37AM (#20130678)

A quick Google search: "A fire extinguisher is mandatory in Belgium, Poland, Turkey and Greece."

4 countries is a far cry from...all of them.

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Re:Attempt to plug a wasp nest sparked the biggest wildfire ... by dang on Friday June 07, 2019 @09:42PM (#20130087)

Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic ahem flamewar.

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Re:Attempt to plug a wasp nest sparked the biggest wildfire ... by Thorrez on Friday June 07, 2019 @09:38PM (#20130074)

Did he have car nearby? It sounds like he got there via 4-wheeler.

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