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Ordinary garden sprinklers mounted on the top of the roof automatically come on when sensing smoke or fire, or can be turned on manually. Watch out for unintended dampenings of barbeques. Sprinklers along the perimeter of the roof shoot water onto surrounding area.
Roof Sprinkler in the News
http://www.news-jou.../98Jun/14area1a.htm
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Roof Sprinklers of the Past
http://www.csuchico...e/keeping_cool.html
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Sprinkler On/Around Home
http://nerec.unl.ed...strynews13.htm#WHAT
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neat pun but the water will just run off the roof like rain? |
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Won't you be soooo popular when the only house in the neighborhood which isn't burnt down is yours? |
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Baked, see links. Admittedly, this is a great idea and is not widely known or implemented. |
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"If I were a rich man..." |
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When we last discussed forest fires (this time last year, I guess), I recall seeing an article about some desperate soul who stood on his roof with a garden hose while the rest of his neighborhood burned down around him (thereby saving his own house). I guess he was real lucky the water mains stayed going.. |
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If you stored rainwater in a rooftop tank (by slowly pumping it up from the catch cistern via a windmill), you could convert the tank into a sprinkler in an emergency by having small circumferential holes in the tank sides. |
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