Sure, if fires existed in vacuums that would be the end of the story. Instead, they often exist near camp sites and other inhabited areas. Tracking down and min

Sure, if fires existed in vacuums that would be the end of the story. Instead, they often exist near camp sites and other inhabited areas. Tracking down and minimizing causes of man-made fires, which tend to cluster around inhabited areas, happens to minimize the chance of death in forest fires - regardless of the total energy built up.