A father and son in California used a homemade irrigation system powered by a pool pump to save their home from the devastating Palisades Fire. Gene and Patrick Golling installed the system last summer as a precaution, anticipating the possibility of a wildfire. When the fire threatened their neighborhood, they used the system for 10 hours straight, soaking the hillside around their home and preventing it from being consumed by the flames.
A father and son assembled a system consisting of a generator, pump, pool water, hose and sprinklers to save their home from disasterin recent memory, the home of Gene and his son Patrick Golling in the Palisades Highlands neighborhood is one of the few that survived.
The Gollings’ 20,000-gallon swimming pool was drained to serve as a vital water source when the Palisades Fire threatened their neighborhood earlier this week. “I envisioned this being burning,” Gene Golling said, reflecting on his decision to purchase the system. “I said to myself, this is a catastrophe to happen.”
“When we came back on Thursday, we were so shocked to see this tree that had caught fire and this hill below,” Patrick Golling said, describing the fire’s path through their neighborhood. “That’s when it occurred to us, if this wasn’t soaking for five hours, that the fire would have lit up and burned everything.”
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