I came here to make this point, but you made it better than I would have. The Carr fire started in a similar way. A blow out on a trailer tire, and the sparks f

I came here to make this point, but you made it better than I would have. The Carr fire started in a similar way. A blow out on a trailer tire, and the sparks from the wheel hitting the asphalt started the whole thing. One of the large fires last year was started by a backfire. Seriously. Way back in ancient history, the 90s, I saw 'brush hogs' all over the place in Arkansas keeping the side of the roads neatly trimmed. Dense forest existed, but it wasn't directly next to the road. Why we don't have that in California I don't know, but we don't. I have only seen brush hogs at work here a a handful of times in the 19 years I've been in California. Instead they do ridiculous things like bring in a herd of goats or sheep to graze on the medians. Just 'hog it. For starters. I don't even want to get into the logging conversation - this isn't the time or the place. The enormous forests should have some kind of logging happening to thin them out. I'm not talking about Muir woods - I'm talking about a 50 mile radius around the great city of Redding, for example. All of the area surrounding Clearlake. All of Lake County. It's a start.