And, in the case of the Lolo Peak fire, my parents are one of two households that are footing the cost of the firefighters major fuck-up of setting the back-bur

And, in the case of the Lolo Peak fire, my parents are one of two households that are footing the cost of the firefighters major fuck-up of setting the back-burn that nearly took out an entire neighborhood. My parents lost nearly everything except 2 vehicles and the pets. The fire started on federal land, and federal officials set the fire that burned down my parents' house. No compensation to them, yet, except from their insurance. I know back-burns are not precise, but given that the fed took preventative measures sure as bulldozing a multimile fire line and laying pipe to power sprinklers, then they set the fire and didn't turn the sprinklers on, feels like arson to me. Also, that they started it at one of the worst times of the day. Everyone in Montana knows that winds pick up in the afternoon. When did they start the back-burn? Roughly 1-2pm local, depending on conditions. That's usually about the cutoff for regional slash burns. By cutoff, I don't mean start, I mean, they have to be stopped by then. Coupled with reports from neighbors, that refused to evacuate, that fire fighters stood by and simply watched while 2 houses & a neighborhood water system burned to the ground. Am I pissed? Of course. I think there was a huge failure of management in this fire. Will my parents every be properly be compensated? I doubt it. They, and the rest of my family, have lost a lot due to federal mismanagement. My parents' house was not lost due to a wild fire. It was lost due to federal action to combat a wild fire, and they fucked it up.