"Hills in them thar gold." -- Alfred Hitchcock, greeting Princess Grace.
LOL!
I'm so immersed in fire news right now (like I do to myself every summer where there's a decent fire season) that it's hard for me to think of fire as just a regular part of the ecology, not catastrophic until you get something like the meteor that hit Yucatan flashing fire all over North America...
Although, I admit, when you get a big blowup, like in 1871 in Michigan or the Big Blowup in 1910, it does seem rather spectacular...