Why don't they arrest the fossil fuel billionaires who are responsible for creating the climatic conditions that enabled these unprecedented fires to erupt into uncontrollable infernos? People have been setting fires on purpose since antiquity, but it's only now when our forests are turning into tinder boxes that we're seeing more and more of these despite our best efforts to fight them. Yes, in the 1800s and earlier, there were larger fires but only because we didn't actively suppress them.