They are considered wildfires not forest fires for their rapid acceleration to burn anything in their path, it not self containing to a forest, and this Palisades fire, from a report I'd seen earlier by the people who called 911 to report, started in someone's backyard, yet undetermined why but didn't from what they were saying, come down from the mountains.
You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
That may be, but the proximity of houses doesn't help no matter what they are called.