Originally Posted by cmac2012

OK, now we've identified the source of the problem - it's greenies who don't hose down their house as a fire approaches.

Brilliant.

I have a lousy feeling that what we're seeing is the gradual transformation of previously forested land into something between forest and desert, as forests that find themselves in desert like conditions are ill prepared to not burn. No idea how far it will reach and how it will shake out. Stand by.