Wasn’t someone here waiting to swoop in and buy fire land for pennies on the dollar?

He’s currently moving money around so he’s can be prepared when the time is right.

Incorrect. Since the beginning of time, fires have prevented excessive build up of fuel, and regenerate the earth (which is good)

California is a corrupt and incompetent state and has prevented residents from performing any brush or vegetation management for decades, which allows conditions that caused these current fires (which aren’t good).

Very true. Fire is mother natures vacuum.

I will say that there are some absolutely stunning parts of Northern Cal. I worked on a hotshot crew for a few years in that neck of the woods, some of the rivers are absolutely stunning.

You wont find steeper hills to climb thats for sure, unless you head to the salmon river breaks in ID. Those hills will turn boys to men quick!

Good luck to the wildland firefighters out there, I wish they treated you all like the professionals you are.

While its true that fire has existed on almost every landscape in America for centuries every area is different and California's landscape is quite diverse and complex. We (mostly the fed govt out west) did an excellent job suppressing fires when they were small, this all started after the great wildfires of 1910 in ID and MT. We had a policy of keeping fires under 10 acres and having them controlled by 10 am the next day, we were really really good at putting fires out, and this is to blame for most of our nations hazardous fuels accumulations, unhealthy forests, etc in conjunction with poor forestry/logging practices in some areas.

This is changing, we now how fires that are allowed to burn, if the conditions warrant. We do quite a lot of prescribed burning. We do a lot of mechanical fuels treatments. But this is all "too little, too late'. Its a huge mountain of a problem, that will keep getting worse before it gets better.

Firefighters are exposed to massive amounts of smoke these days, they are no longer working a fire "season" they work year around. Working in smoke, oftentimes sleeping in smoke. I personally know 3 friends who retired at the mandatory age of 57, and died of lung cancer shortly there after. Wildland firefighters make massive sacrifices, and are not treated nearly as well as they should be.

California's corruption has nothing to do with many California residents desire to live in what folks in the business call the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) basically, the areas were the forests or brush meet the houses. Thousands in Californians and other westerners for that matter crave living in a home immediately adjacent to overgrown forests and brushlands, they want seclusion and privacy, and it all comes at a price. I dont know how many houses i've worked around during a wildfire, where the homeowner has their gutters completly full of dried leaves, leaves and pine needles all over around their house, cords of firewood on their porch, just WAITING TO BURN DOWN. There are a lot of dumb people out there that are every bit part of the problem, trust me.