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Unless you're gonna make it fully automated, it's not gonna work here as it can't be within kilometers of the landing site during landing in case there's a catastrophic failure.

> no reason to reinvent the airport firetruck.

There is. The booster is high above, and is larger than basically any aircraft. There's no flat concrete airfield around either.

I would suggest blowing CO2 or nitrogen through pipes positioned at the right height on the tower.

It’s not going to burn like that in production.

Why would you use a firetruck if you could also run a hose up the tower and get it right where it's needed?

The airport fire truck can’t control fires 250ft in the air

It's pushing the limits but it's close enough to existing capability to be a pretty easy ask.