Originally Posted by Rochard

There is no stopping this.

We had a 1000 acre fire by us this summer, miles from my house. There was no leaves there at all to rake - it was all dead grass. What are we going to do, rake hundreds of thousands of acres? How many fires will that start?

If that is not bad enough, sixty percent of forest land in California is owned by the federal government - including the Los Padres National Forest which is where Paradise, California is located. Too bad Trump didn't have all of those leaves raked last month huh?