Do you find this ironic about brush/forest fires?

you haven't done much in the form of research on forest fires there have been so very deadly ones over the past hundred years or so look up the history on Northern Ontario forest fires from the 20's and 30's entire towns were burned out thousands on acres of land burned,the fires did not burn out they ran into huge lake shores or burned till a major rain fall came even over the winter months fires were known to burn under ground and reemerge in the spring and start over.Look into US prairie fires in the same time period and see how devastating they were