Disastrous History

Hello everyone. I am still alive but mostly focusing on other places. I have a substack now! It’s disastroushistory.substack.com. I write a lot of things there! So if you’d drop me a follow there you’ll probably enjoy it!

@HoosiersConnect What about Charlie B?!

LET’S GOOOOOOOOOO

Moral of the story is still stop using pyrotechnics inside with flammable wall and ceiling coverings and have multiple emergency exits with properly working hardware and outward swinging doors. End.

It would be negligible at best. Cant really fault either one, just providing context.

Couple things regarding yesterday’s bar fire in Switzerland that I’ve seen discussed in a very long thread 🧵

missions attempting to cause widespread wildfires. They sprayed the jungle with Agent Orange and White then Agent Blue a few days before dropping white phosphorous bombs over the area. All of it failed. Because causing wildfires in the rainforest is hard.

I desperately need everyone to know this very thing was tried. And I’m not talking about agent orange. That came after the failure of trying to burn the forests. The overarching operation was Operation Pink Rose, with Operation Sherwood Forest and Operation Hot Tip as specific

The American military quite literally tried this. Literally this exact thing several times. It failed every single time because it’s really really hard to get a rainforest dry enough to readily burn. The US Forestry Service did a whole bunch of research into burning Vietnam.

If you’re trying to report on an active disaster scene, stop posting numbers of injuries/trapped/missing/dead from scanners. It does a disservice to emergency responders. They’re not reporting things, they are operating under the minimal information they have.

Been doing a lot of research into Great Lakes shipwrecks and the Fitz was the last major Great Lakes shipping disaster oddly enough.

If that fuel is drier because of prolonged heat and dry conditions, it will burn significantly better. Just use your brain. I beg of you.

I am begging someone to understand that once a fire moves past its point of origin, the cause of the fire, the thing that brought fuel, oxygen, and heat together, literally no longer matters. The fire can be more or less intense based on the fuel it is burning.