Play Pen Broken  There goes another comment with all the links and data. This is irritating. Well, here's a link to the plan those people were provided and ignored in favor of burning to death.  http://www.californiachaparral.org/bprotectingyourhome.html The dry lands of California have been burning every year for centuries. These morons chose to live in an as-yet unlit wildfire zone, and ignored every plan and recommendation to protect their homes and lives. What can you even say in the face of such stupidity?  "Meh, it's too expensive and more than our lives are worth." "I'd rather watch television than prevent my home and self from being consumed in a wildfire."  "More equally stupid reasoning for choosing to burn to death." There's not a single person in California who doesn't know fires happen every dry season, and yet... Tune in next year for more stupidity.