Volunteers get to fires quicker. Residents have been warned of threatening weather conditions. Every school district in the county was equipment with warning radios. Water is not a good way to put out fires. You have to dissipate the heat quickly.
Foam works better.
Rural fire departments use foam. Charles Ray ordered the second set to go at Rosston. Many lives have been saved. A Fire and Rescue station in Prescott had been on his list for 20 years. It was built in 1995.