Just one more obstacle to having a sensible fire regime. Sheesh. If you do prescribed burns early in the season, the fires will be small, and not out of contro

Just one more obstacle to having a sensible fire regime. Sheesh. If you do prescribed burns early in the season, the fires will be small, and not out of control (generally). That prevents worse air pollution later. In general this differentiation between "acts of God" and "acts of Man" is a real problem. You neglect a forest until it burns down a community, and you're innocent. It was an act of God. You try to prevent that from happening by doing controlled burns, something goes wrong, and it burns down some houses; busted.