My thoughts Wrote:
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> In the Santa Rosa fires last Autumn, some
> individuals were able to save their homes and
> neighborhoods by doing their own fire-fighting.
> For instance, cutting fire breaks or cutting
> trees.
>
> Professional firefighters won't devote attention
> to every stucture because they can't. I wonder if
> any museum members will go out there with a Cat or
> brush clearing equipment to try to protect the
> site.
>
> Example of how one man saved his home:
>
>
> Man Battles California Wildfires Alone And Saves
> Home
> October 23, 2017
>
> ...
>
> Reid had expected a wall of fire, but instead, he
> found himself facing eddies and swirls of flames
> that constantly shifted as the gust of winds
> picked up and died down.
>
> Reid admits that the intensity of the inferno-like
> conditions was much more prolonged that he had
> been expecting. As he explains, sparks and hot
> gases would appear from all sides, disappearing
> for a time, but then reappearing from different
> angles. At one point, hot gases singed his
> eyebrows.
>
> Reid spent much of his time cutting down
> smoldering trees in order to try and stop them
> from spreading the flames. He went around at night
> with a flashlight trying to determine which ones
> needed to be felled. He was often amazed that
> wood, which seemed like it would be very hard to
> burn, had in fact ignited.
>
> Reid describes his efforts as simply “doing what
> you can” and he refuses to pat himself on the
> back. Yet, he managed to do something
> extraordinary — he saved his home while every one
> of the 11 other homes in the neighborhood
> perished.
>
> ...
>

Then there are the stories of those who stayed to do the same, and perished.

Sometimes, good things can happen when people try to protect themselves. And sometimes it's better to leave dangerous activities to professionals. And rarely can one figure out which situation is which in advance.