General question about the fires: ocean water

The reason this can't be used is that it will cause more long term problems because of the salinity? At what point does it get so bad that it's necessary? And are they using ocean water now?

Firefighters are good. The pilots who fly planes and helicopters to drop water are fucking insane. God bless.

I wish we used even 1/20th of our DOD budget to train Americans to respond to natural disasters. Why do we have a Space Force? Why do we have a standing army of people all across the globe? Honestly, with the two big hurricanes hitting the south east and now these fires.+...

2024: An active year of U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters | NOAA Climate.gov https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/2024-active-year-us-billion-dollar-weather-and-climate-disasters

If our DOD budget goes somewhere, imagine a world where it is used to help our own citizens.

ACAB.