The problem isn't not doing enough to prevent fires, but doing too good a job for 50 years. Most western forests burned every couple years. This was natural and served the purpose of clearing dead wood.
Now that there are cabins everywhere we can't have that, meaning we either have to pay people for massive thinning projects (JOBS!) or watch the fires get increasingly bigger once they start since they have decades of wood to burn off.
Good one 'Merka!

Actually, redwood bark is very fire resistant.