This is really poor forest and forest fire management look like.

The Brookings fire (can’t remember the exact name) started July 12th from a lightning strike.  It was contained early and the National Forest Service decided let it “ burn-itself-out”, due to other fires and funding.  

Well, that didn’t happen.  A month and a half later we now have the nation’s biggest fire, and they don’t expect to have it out until the middle of October.  And there is more smoke coming!

On the federal level, apparently funding transit projects etc., is more important than risking lives, properties, and air quality.