Fighting fire with fire in the new California

In the California of 2018, there are little fires everywhere, every day — and most of the time, awfully big ones, too.
It is nothing short of extraordinary how quickly all Californians have been forced to accept the formerly eccentric-seeming fact, first reported by wildfire experts just a couple of years ago, that there is no longer a “fire season” in our state, as there had been for all recorded human history here. What was the dangerously incendiary time of the late summer a