As Carr fire kills two in California, firefighters reflect on a job now ‘twice as violent’

My takeaways from this, and from other recent coverage on fires around the world:

1. Year-round fires have been normal since 2012.
2. A hotter climate combined with historically poor land management leads to our current mega-fires.
3. Human expansion into at-risk lands leads to more lives and property in harm's way.
4. Firefighter crews and resources are being stretched to their limits at present.
5. It's not going to get better any time soon.

Axes of attack on the problem, from least to most complex:

1. Hire more wildland firefighters. Unilateral governmental decision, short-term solution.
2. Improve land management through prescribed burns and bush clearing, this should reduce the size of fires. Results would come in years to decades.
3. Reduce communities' exposure to wildfires through re-zoning and proactive defenses. Multilateral, possibly expensive, and probably unpopular. Would require long-term changes in how humans choose to live, I envision this as migration to cities.
4. Addressing climate change. Difficulty: good fuckin' luck! Effectiveness: probably not as much as the above, really, at least not in my lifetime.