And now for the real reason that there are so many large forest fires raging out of control.
Liberals.
Liberals who keep us from cutting down trees and clearing away dry brush in the name of "ecology". The fact is that forests need to be cut and trimmed and logged in order to keep them from becoming overgrown and dried out. Dry dead trees and brush are fire hazards. Forests that are regularly logged and cleared do not have huge, 900-acre fires.
Ergo, the tree-hugging liberals that protest loggers and demand that every little leaf and branch in the forest remain untouched "for the good of the environment" are the real reason that the fires have raged out of control.
That's not to say that the arsonists who started the fires aren't to blame. They are, and if caught, they should be jailed and shot and drawn and quartered. (You decide on the order of the punishments.) However, the fires would not have been as bad if loggers who regularly clear away the brush and cut down the dead trees weren't kept from doing their jobs by liberal protestors.
Elliot