well, i wasn’t blaming the victims; that’d be just plain goofy ... just trying to find out how so many people could be killed in a fire like this
I don’t know how many could be killed today, with better foreknowledge, equipment, etc. The most people killed in a wildland fire in the US was in Peshtigo, Wisconsin in 1871. It killed between 1200 and 2500 people. Nobody knows the exact number.