Look at thre videos. Healthy evergreen trees standing up all over.
It is ground cover, pine needles and brush that largely burned.
All of that should be required by law to be kept 100 feet away from any structure.
Look at the houses, covered with combustible wood shingles and siding.
Wood shingles and combustible roofs ought to be illegal.
You don’t see stucco exteriors and tile roofs burning down.
The State Building Code Council and State Fire Marshall ought to be charged with endangering the public.
What good are they when building practices are killing so many?
“Wood shingles and combustible roofs ought to be illegal.”
When I was involved in home building back in the late 80’s, the high end homes had restrictions that required shake shingle roofs. Yep, kindling was on top of 500-750K homes. Bottle rockets or any type of ignition and the house burned down. Stupidest thing ever....