The idea in California is: 1. Try to stop fires from occurring at dangerous times (high winds), when there's a high risk that the fire will get out of control.

The idea in California is: 1. Try to stop fires from occurring at dangerous times (high winds), when there's a high risk that the fire will get out of control. 2. Do controlled burns during safe times (low winds), to clear out fuel without killing people or burning down homes. Unfortunately there's been far too much fire suppression, rather than controlled burns, over the past century in CA [1]. So we're dealing with a pretty huge backlog in addition to climate change. [1] https://e360.yale.edu/features/fighting-fire-with-fire-california-turns-to-prescribed-burning https://e360.yale.edu/features/fighting-fire-with-fire-calif...