Fire fighting is a blank check from the goverment...there are no limits on how much can be spent. When I was a firefighter, I often heard phrases like “ Where there’s smoke, there’s money.” and “every lightning flash means cash.”
Now, after 9-11, firefighters are treated like heroes...even if they don’t deserve it and are total slackers.
Add this attitude with a blank check from congress and couple it with unnatural forest fuel loads due to gov’t mismanagement - or in other words, no management at all ( benign neglect) due to environmentalist lawsuits, - and we have the perfect recipe for catastrophe.
All I can say is that I hope your house is not sacrificed for the greater good.
Correction: Greater Good should be in paranthesis because that is not my thoughts...they are the thoughts of the Sierra Club and nature conservancy who always respond “ It’s a shame that all those houses burned up, but gee whiz, they should never have been built in the wilderness.”
This is such crap. This line is often applied to 100 year old structures.
I ask you: why is it that after a hundred years that these houses are suddenly deamed : “shouldn’t be there”?