You just implied you could careless if people die and lose everything, suggesting they should respect the earth and live where disasters like fires/tornadoes/hurricanes/floods and earthquakes don't happen.
That's some twisted thinking there crusty.
My point is that a room with a view sometimes comes with a price. Anyone who builds in a windy canyon full of tender better know the risks. Same for someone who builds along the Gulf Coast, the Pacific Coast (mudslides), and the Boudreauxs around here who like to live in a house on stilts in the flood plain of a river, which is pretty safe around here right now. Much of what is burning in East Texas is not brush. The fire in Cass County has burned a 30,000 acre pine plantation worth from $60-$100,000,000 to someone. I saw on TV a local man of low means point to a stand of burnt timber beside his burnt house and said that the timber was his children’s college fund. I suppose the house was insured. Basically, fire sucks no matter where you are.