Adding any more response people is probably not going to happen. There are just not extra people to drive the pickup with the ATV, set up the pump, run the lines to the fire pumper.
Looking for "creative" ideas is great but people in the fire science field have looked at this for years and what exists today is about as good as it can get without throwing a lot more money at it. It should also be mentioned that the majority of house fires occur at night. The ideas that people have would need to be carried out at night, on a strange property that the firefighters have no knowledge of.
The primary concern is the protection of life and that is job one when fire apparatus arrives at a call. If everyone gets out safely then the fire damage is really not that significant in the total scope of things. People have insurance, make repairs or rebuild, and go on with their lives.
On an individual level, if money were not an issue, I suppose you could get together with a few of your of neighbors and put in a dry hydrant between a couple of houses.
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