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<blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 8758923" data-attributes="member: 6750306">Random considerations:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Even with Control Weather or similar spells to make it rain, putting out a raging city-wide fire is going to be tough - if nobody's managed to put it out before it becomes large enough to threaten an entire neighborhood or city quarter, the only option is probably trying to confine it to that one area.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Depending on what part of the city is burning, it's unlikely that whatever water source they have is going to be able to generate enough water to effectively fight a fire once it grows beyond a couple of buildings.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Even in a city with an efficient and coordinated city-wide police force/city guard, it's going to take a great deal of time to start trying to spread word of the fire and even longer to try to find individuals with the ability to contribute toward fighting it in any sort of magical capacity, assuming they're inclined to help/can be coerced into helping.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Coming from the other side of the issue... Similar to the London fire, most larger cities are likely to have a wall or gate (or even wide thoroughfare) between different sections of the city, which will help contain the fire so a city-wide emergency is probably going to involve several arsonists acting with deliberate coordination, and most likely fire creatures summoned to run amok.</li>
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[QUOTE="Mad_Jack, post: 8758923, member: 6750306"] Random considerations: [LIST] [*]Even with [I]Control Weather[/I] or similar spells to make it rain, putting out a raging city-wide fire is going to be tough - if nobody's managed to put it out before it becomes large enough to threaten an entire neighborhood or city quarter, the only option is probably trying to confine it to that one area. [*]Depending on what part of the city is burning, it's unlikely that whatever water source they have is going to be able to generate enough water to effectively fight a fire once it grows beyond a couple of buildings. [*]Even in a city with an efficient and coordinated city-wide police force/city guard, it's going to take a great deal of time to start trying to spread word of the fire and even longer to try to find individuals with the ability to contribute toward fighting it in any sort of magical capacity, assuming they're inclined to help/can be coerced into helping. [*]Coming from the other side of the issue... Similar to the London fire, most larger cities are likely to have a wall or gate (or even wide thoroughfare) between different sections of the city, which will help contain the fire so a city-wide emergency is probably going to involve several arsonists acting with deliberate coordination, and most likely fire creatures summoned to run amok. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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