I am not willing to accept living with this level of fire (and smoke).
Trees grow back. Forests should be managed like any other crop. Active management means both grazing, logging, prescribed burns and fire suppression especially in the in the urban interface regions. Logging and grazing offset management costs while reducing fuel load.
Managing the environment for our own benefit is what humans do and the mushy headed Gaia worshippers who think natural is better are idjits.
..”Managing the environment for our own benefit is what humans do”......
Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden ‘to tend and keep it’ (Manage it)......that directive hasn’t changed.