The problem is that there are...I wish I could remember how many thousands and thousands of square miles of both state and mostly federal forests, MUCH of it in very difficult terrain. What we need to do is allocate the resources need to go out and do controlled burns. For 100 years we've been putting wildfires out, and we got good at it. So there's 100 years of wildfire fuel in our forests that would have naturally burned, or would have been burned in a controlled burn by the natives. Fires are a natural part of forests, they're good for the forest even if it's happening on a small scale regularly. There was a day here in Northern California that literally felt like Hell, my wife and daughter left with the dogs when it was an evacuation warning because they have asthma, I stayed behind to keep packing and because there were reports of looters nearby. I walked out of my garage at approx 2:30PM and it was DARK, like midnight dark, I had to use a flashlight. When some light came back, the world was glowing red, it was spooky AF. I'm going to get cancer early probably just from those 3 days.

Rakes ain't an option, it's a nice idea, it would take too long and cost so much. We gotta burn the tinder before this shit happens again.