Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
Bad deal.

We can have some effect on wild fire, but its pretty darn arrogant to think we can control it.


We could do a helluva better job than we're now doing....we used to have "fire towers" scattered all over the hills....most of them have been torn down or are no longer manned....we also quite often fail to dispatch our air tankers until the fire is out of control....one local fire here broke out this past summer and when it was at 40 acres, Cal Fire reported that they had two crews assigned and were "keeping an eye on it"....the next day, it was over out of control...