Resources should be deployed to only protect homes, the rest of the fire should be able to run it's course. The biggest threat to the forest and parks is us with our self serving management plans. As long as we can get "pretty" pictures it seems people can care less about the actual health of the ecosystem.

I remember last summer for the fire in Willow the absolute amount of hype in the reporting and fire officials. I don't really doubt that they are doing anything different about this fire. Make it sound extreme so that you can convince people how you have your lives in danger so everyone stay away and make sure to never cut any funding.