My dad always told me if you live in the woods\brush to always BULLDOZE a fire break wide enough that the tallest near tree couldn't fall on your roof. and keep shrubs and undergrowth away from your homes foundation.seems after 100 or so years these folks out in California and other places like it would get the hint that mother nature likes to set fires to clean up the environment.
A house/structure can be replaced but a person is not. It was definitely senseless for those three firemen to die, God bless them and their families
