Can we just develop some sort of "water bombs" where essentially a container of some sort, could be a elastic balloon type that gets filled with gallons of water and then have a small detonator in it to trigger a mild explosion upon dropping that can be done from the drop plane and essentially the water bomb the fires from up above? That can be done not just from planes but bigger drones and sky ships that can carry a couple of these water tanks that can be precisely positioned remotely above the fires?? I mean there has to be ways to do this without risk to humans and long term damage due to chemicals right? 

Also equip properties with high pressure water sprinklers like they did in Japan to enable owners to fight fires around their property? 

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