wild fire

I tried to write a letter to the editor of the Abilene Reporter News about my thoughts on wildfire.Well It did not go through. I think if every one in this great land of ours got together and cleaned a large swath around our rual houses and such then burned it, it seems we could by having low grass and few trees prevent the dammaging fires of late. We saw in Austrilla that 150 people died because of uncontrolled fire.Our tactits since my birth 54 years ago has been to prevent all burns. We could have community burn day and a small rual town gets to gether all the farmers, ranchers, and any one to volinteer then mow down and clean a area and controll burn it. The cattle sprays and volinteer fire depts would put it out quickly and move on. This would save on resorses equipment of the volinteer fire depts, and prevent loss of life and property. When one house burns all pay with higher insurance rates.