[steve86]

Now we’ve got logging roads strategically placed to serve as fire breaks in ways that limit most of our fires to a mere 100 acres.

As though roads can be cut over many of these western mountain ranges.

[Strategerist]

As though roads can be cut over many of these western mountain ranges.

And people keep thinking these are "forest fires" - Chaparral Scrub is a unique ecosystem based on the California climate that has no parallel in the east.

It's uniquely fireprone and the fires move orders of magnitudes faster than anything in the east. In fact, it's evolved to burn, and burn repeatedly.