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Gov. Abbott Enlists Texas National Guard to Shoot at Wildfires (thehardtimes.net)

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[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That is actually a legit technique used by firefighters

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

Forest fire fighters ... the method of purposely burning a section of forest in front of a moving forest fire to starve or stop the fire from otherwise spreading uncontrollably.

But what I've seen come out of Texas, they would legitimately try to point their flame throwers directly at a fire to try to kill it with fire.