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 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
We have Smokey the Bear style educational videos, color coded fire risk warnings, signs near campgrounds, etc.. But there are plenty of people who ignore all of that.

Not to mention the local news programs include fire danger warnings/tips into the weather segments, so pretty much daily reminders of what not to do when conditions are prone to exacerbating fire.

There is enough educational/warning content around that they can be faulted for ignoring it.

I just read that the fires caused an Insurance company to go out of business.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/04/us/camp-fire-insurance-company-liquidation/index.html

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
There is enough educational/warning content around that they can be faulted for ignoring it.

Let's also address the usual problem. None of the warnings or briefings, or practices matter if you're drunk around a campfire, etc.

 Elbows wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
There is enough educational/warning content around that they can be faulted for ignoring it.

Let's also address the usual problem. None of the warnings or briefings, or practices matter if you're drunk around a campfire, etc.

Round these parts if it’s a high risk day, it’ll be either a partial or total fire ban, making it illegal to even start a campfire or have a barbecue other than in a properly prepared site with a commercial barby.

It doesn’t take long to cotton on to what the high risk days are even if you don’t read the warnings, see them on the news or hear them on the radio. Is it hot? Is it windy? Has it not rained for a while? If two of the three are true there’s a good chance there will be some level of fire ban in place, if all 3 are true then there definitely will be a total fire ban.

Even if alcohol is thrown in to the equation, you really have to be a bloody idiot or never lived in a fire prone area to start a fire on a high fire risk day (or doing it intentionally to start a bush fire like we’ve sometimes had happen).

I think we're all missing the easy solution here. Asbestos houses. Just make the whole thing out of solid asbestos. Just don't touch anything... and take shallow breaths.