Thanks for the article Charles!  I've known John See for a long time; he is a dedicated force for prevention.  I've also seen some of the computer sims on a nasty, wind driven fire in Anchorage and it is truly frightening.  It gets to a point where no amount of fire fighting resources are going to contain it.  Another point regarding the Hillside is there are lots of subdivisions that only have a single road in and out.  We built a quick and dirty sprinkler system for a last ditch defense for a cabin  in the face of the Sockeye Ave fire last year.  If I had a Hillside house I would have the same setup there.  The system was fire up and leave, made an 80 foot wet circle around the cabin.  Good as we could do and lucked out when the fire turned.