Editorial: A better way to help Californians survive wildfires: Focus on homes, not trees

Firestorms in the West have grown bigger and more destructive in recent years - and harder to escape. Massive and frenzied, they have overtaken people trying to outrun or outdrive them.

Gridlocked mountain roads prevented many Paradise, California, residents from fleeing the Camp fire, which killed 85 people in 2018. This year, more than 30 people have died in the fires in California and Oregon, and again, in many cases, people were trying to escape fast-moving blazes.