Ernie,
I think that those who stayed for the fires and now this storm are just more dumb than afraid of change. When they finally get these last two fires here out, a lot of lives will be changed. One person that I talked to who was in the evacuation center they set up in Anderson said he had refused to leave his house until he saw just how terrifying that wall of flame coming toward him was and that his little water hose was nothing. And after he got out with a helicopter dumping water to clear the road for him, his house wasn't burned after all.
Ron