Well, also, we’ve been building homes in areas that burn ever 50 years or so.
Hell, there are plants around here that can’t even reproduce without wildfire.
People buy a few acres, build a house 20 miles from anywhere. Gravel road that most firetrucks couldn’t hope to get up, surrounded by plants that burn as part of the natural cycle of things, and then bitch to high heaven when no one will write them fire insurance or fight the fires in their area. Seen it for decades.
Sounds very much like the gorgeous setup that was built near Santa Cruz by Victor Ohta, an ophthalmologist.
Ohta was murdered — along with his family and his secretary — by serial killer John Linley Frazier in October, 1971.
After he murdered them all, Frazier typed the following message on Dr. Ohta's typewriter:
Halloween, 1970. Today World War III will begin, as bought to you by the People of the Free Universe. From this day forward, anyone and/or everyone or company of persons who misuses the natural environment or destroys same will suffer the penalty of death by the People of the Free Universe. I and my comrades from this day forth will fight until death or freedom against anyone who does not support natural life on this planet. Materialism must die, or Mankind will stop.
KNIGHT OF WANDS
KNIGHT OF CUPS
KNIGHT OF PENTACLES
KNIGHT OF SWORDS
Frazier left the note on the window of Dr. Ohta's Rolls- Royce.
Source: Wikipedia.