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It's a rock and a hard place situation. One of the reasons the fires are so bad now is that for many years much effort was put into preventing fires. It allows a lot of fuel to build up, so that when the fire finally gets too big to handle it's got a huge reserve to burn through. We may have to endure a few years of huge fires to get back down to the usual background level.