Plus since they quit logging in the 1980s to save the trees and spotted owl..there are no roads into the forested areas so ..you cannot fight a fire you cannot get to...
Then it becomes a wild fire..
And then California outlawed controlled burns because the rich people in the mountains complained to their govt. friends that it was messing up their view of the sunset. But it’s Global-Warming’s fault that their state is charred. Nobody cared until a bunch of Hollywood celebs got burned out of their homes.
To quote El Rushbo: Screw the spotted owl. Adapt or die.