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There are a lot of places outside of city limits that still engage in burns like this -filling the countryside with smoke - and whatever they say they're doing there's plenty of times I've gone past and nobody is really watching the fire closely but rather everyone is puttering around doing their regular shit. It's absolutely careless in the face of the rising danger and number of fires were seeing yearly.
Sucks to the one who gets made into an example, but maybe a few more cases like this will have little thinking twice.
I live out in the country and I do this and I see people doing this .... But not during dry times when there's risk. People pile the brush up but nobody burns anything until there's been at least a couple days of rain. Most people just wait until the spring. Then you burn a perimeter around the fire, and you really don't need to stand there watching it.