You’re welcome. Men like your dad understood good forest management, many others do not. I grew up in the lumber/logging areas of northern California and have many friends who went into forestry. Their hands are now tied, and for a few decades now have been trying to warn everyone of the crisis we now find ourselves in.
Forests are no longer allowed to be thinned as needed, roads which used to allow access for firefighters are overgrown and impassible, and here we are with article after article wondering why these forest fires are so bad. What in the world do they think were controlling them in the past?
Add in the lack of proper forest and land management (grass and scrub lands need to be included).
Then think hot, dry, windy (happens a lot in much of CA), and "spark upwind".
The entire bullet train budget could be added to current CA firefighting expenditures, and, while more could be caught "in time", disastrous fires would still occur. An awful lot of prevention needs to be done, and many people would not like to live in remade "safe" places.