This subject runs deep with rich veins of paydirt. Rather than Bear spouting expletives and conspiracies, fire is a big business here with a lot of incentives to have big fires every year. In the end, fires help more than they hurt and promote native plantlife.
The closest Bear came to being involved in a fire he was still living at home in 2007 and they were under warning but they didn't end up having an issue. School was canceled for a week.
In California, the insurance companies have stopped offering fire insurance in the same way they stopped offering earthquake insurance so it becomes an expensive state sponcered stand alone policy.
