Firestorms are produced by fire raging into tornado like whirlwinds consuming everything in their path, sucking up oxygen and debris.

Fires need material to burn and oxygen. Water and chemicals attempt to snuff the fire out removing the oxygen. However, most of these methods are inefficient on very windy days or when the fires are already really large.

The most efficient wat to fight a large fire is to disrupt its vortex of burn. Yes, most large fires have a hot spot perimeter and a cooler "eye" much like a tornado.

By breaking up the fire's integrity one should be able to reduce it's intensity.

Several ideas come to mind - ideas which seem ridiculous at first glance but may yield tremendous results:

Vortex pattern thermobaric guided missile aerial bombing which orchestrates explosions to consume air rapidly in a direction away from the fire and to simultaneously destroy key areas of fuel (i.e. trees, brush etc.) used for the burn.

This technique could be combined with fighting a fireline with massive shelling and bombardment with ground guns and similar chemical filled shells.

The big planes are slow and there are never enough of them to go around. the explosive effect of the shell makes up for its relatively small size. It also allows for greater safety as no one would have to fly though the fire - merely around it.

Fighter planes could circle a fire quickly and put the retardant in with greater accuracy than any tanker.

Temperatures on the perimeter of this fire are two-thousand degrees - making it impossible at times for the fire crews to directly fight the fire. Firefighting these size fires in the future should be done at a safe distance.

It would give a new meaning to the old adage, "fight fire with fire!"

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