How to deal with realistic mode starter town fires?

[CaPY]

How do you deal with realistic mode start when buildings are on fire and you have no population or fire station built yet?

[Beast of War]

Saaatisfaction, came in a chain reaction.
I couldnt get enough, so i had to self destruct.
The heat was on
Rising to the top
Thats when i heard somebody say
Burn baby burn, disco infernooo

:-))

If you are in the regular version of the game no options but to build a fire station quick and if need be man it with foreign workers ( bus directly from the customs office into the fire station, no bus stop ) You can set 1 lane to the border for buses only with a traffic sign. That will reduce the ( usually long truck ) queue for getting foreign man power as well.

In beta there is a small fire station too. It is pretty dangerous to place as 2 fire trucks ( or the limited number of firefighter men ) seem not to be able to extinguish larger building fires.

later on you could opt for a fire station with an attached helicopter platform, if any surface of water is in it's range. ( shows as blue dots ) Then the helicopter will fetch a bucket of water and extinguish from the air.

[GeeBee]

Originally posted by Beast of War:

Saaatisfaction, came in a chain reaction.
I couldnt get enough, so i had to self destruct.
The heat was on
Rising to the top
Thats when i heard somebody say
Burn baby burn, disco infernooo

:-))

If you are in the regular version of the game no options but to build a fire station quick and if need be man it with foreign workers ( bus directly from the customs office into the fire station, no bus stop ) You can set 1 lane to the border for buses only with a traffic sign. That will reduce the ( usually long truck ) queue for getting foreign man power as well.

In beta there is a small fire station too. It is pretty dangerous to place as 2 fire trucks ( or the limited number of firefighter men ) seem not to be able to extinguish larger building fires.

later on you could opt for a fire station with an attached helicopter platform, if any surface of water is in it's range. ( shows as blue dots ) Then the helicopter will fetch a bucket of water and extinguish from the air.

Also, with the helicopter you don't need any workers at the fire station so no amenities like heat etc too

[CaPY]

Hmm I'll just disable fire until village is done. :P

[Deco Boladasso]

Originally posted by CaPY:

Hmm I'll just disable fire until village is done. :P

This.

[Silent_Shadow]

Build the fire station first and have a couple linked stations nearby with foreign workers. If there is a fire, link the stations to the fire station so foreign workers staff it.

There are also a bunch of fire immune buildings you can start work on while building the fire station.

[oldschool]

yea rip building...
then since i feel robed, i auto deconstruct and reconstruct it and it bugs out the road and factory connections

[MrKrabs]

I like the challenge.
I had to rebuild 2 buildings before my fire fighters were ready.

[Beast of War]

Originally posted by MrKrabs:

I like the challenge.
I had to rebuild 2 buildings before my fire fighters were ready.

This yes...often i can't be bothered by staffing a fire department with foreign workers before all infrastructure is up to support a residential workforce.

It only got me into expensive trouble once when i forgot to build a fire department and in in winter the coal heating plant burnt down. And again in a satellite city where a 400+ people flat came down, and the report read 400 people had died. Pixel people may they be, that message feels like it should not have happened.

[MrKrabs]

The chopper trick could have helped here.
But I took the risk.

[CaPY]

Problem is I play 1800 start, I only have horses at start. You can't really depend on firedepartment staffed by external staff with year 1800. :)

[oldschool]

i built a fire station before i turned on the electricity and it didnt matter, I couldnt even get enough staff from the border which caused buildings to burn down... waste of resources even attempting to build one before you have pops imo

[Silent_Shadow]

Just store some foreign workers in a pair of free stations near it.
If you have a fire then place a mud path to the stations and they will go to fight the fire.