Becoming an increasing menace in the Western United States

Generally hotter, faster, and spread more erratically than in the past

Are the increasingly frequent blazes that burn 500.000 are or more - 10 times the size of the average forest fire of 20 years ago

Having a significantly below normal precipitation in many recent years

More residential housing is being built, providing fuel to make fires burn with greater intensity

Dilapidated equipment, old fire engines, and insufficient blueprints for fire safety

Not be able to communicate with other states adequately

Scorched thousands of acres, burned thousands of homes and killed numerous people

State promises to provide more up-2-date engines, planes and helicopters to fight with fires

invested in better command-and-control facilities as well as in the strategies to run the insaction