[dragnet2]

California fire fighting and Alabama fire fighting have about as much in common as the arctic and the Sahara.

They don't realize the size of the super rugged topography, and what erratic strong winds can do.

They don't realize you can clear your brush back 200 yards, and with a wind blown wild fire moving at 45 plus miles per hour, hot embers can travel for *miles* into neighborhoods and everywhere else.

I've seen hot embers flying at 60 miles per hour, getting sucked up under roof eves, in areas far away from the actual fires.

Some here are just ignorant of the situation.

[Sunnyflorida]

I was in the Bay Area - actually out on the Bay - when the big Oakland fire took out thousands of houses. It only stopped when the wind stopped.