Well, that's kinda nitpicky - you know what I mean.

The knuckleheads don't allow fires. Not at all, under no circumstances, nada. They'll write a ticket if you burn just one tumbleweed in your backyard. If you burned off, say, 1/2 acre of standing brush on your land - you'd go to jail.

So in a few years the brush gets 8-10 feet tall, so thick you can't get through it, and it's tinder-dry. It HAS to burn from some cause eventually - oh, and then they build and sell houses in it. They cut the brush back around the houses, but that doesn't do any good in a 50 mph wind with flames 50 feet long.

Does that clarify the point?