Little fires everywhere, and big ones, too

Before the big conflagrations burning Southern California wildlands now and every summer and fall, there are little fires, everywhere.
Some of them get put out. Some of them grow to kill and destroy.
Many of them should never have been allowed to start in the first place, and could easily have been prevented.
As of Friday, the causes of the big blazes in northwest Los Angeles County and in San Gabriel Canyon, causing large evacuations and fouling our air, weren’t clear.
But as staffer Ruby