HeyBub wrote:

As it was being used to clear brush in response to fire regulations.

"Some Santa Barbara County residents recently received annual notices
advising them they had until June 1 to clear potentially hazardous
brush, county fire Capt. Glenn Fidler said. "

Anybody dumb enough to be clearing dry brush without fire-fighting
capability on-hand is, well, dumb. That includes the guy who hires a
lowest-bidder crew to do it without making sure they have some Indian
backback sprayers ready to go. The fire regs are there for a good reason,
if a weed-whacker hadn't started this then any one of a dozen other things
could have, it was only a matter of time.

I watched one family on the news a couple of days ago lamenting about how
they know better, how they knew they should have done this, that and the
other thing--instead they did nothing and lost everything, escaped with the
clothes on their backs. Damn shame, but it's not like they moved into the
neighborhood a month ago, they'd seen previous fires come close, and still
they weren't ready....