At some point, we have to accept that wildfires are natural and that if we’re going to hold people accountable for the total outcome of their (fairly random) part in the ignition event, we’re going to find people and companies naturally taking a risk-mitigation stance, including stopping maintaining firebreaks and proactively turning off power to large parts of the grid in high-risk areas until some other unlucky sod triggers the fire instead.
I was discussing this incident last night:
https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/10/02/us/az-off-duty-border-patro...