Of the two Fires tend to be the most terrifying in an ongoing way. I can remember in the early 1960s in Glendale how many of my classmates in Junior High and then High School lost their homes to fires in the hills around Glendale. Since the richest people tend to live in the hills around Los Angeles (simply because you have a 25% to 50% chance of your home eventually burning down at some point in the near or far future. So, wealthier people can also afford better fire insurance that might rebuild their homes if they burn down too. For example, if you live between 101 and Malibu in the hills or even on Malibu beach you have one of the highest chances of your home burning down as the Santana winds blow down the canyons from the deserts all the way to the oceans. So, almost every year some people are going into the ocean at midnight or some strange hour just not to be burnt up in the fires from Oxnard to Santa Monica.
If you have a beautiful mountain cabin or house, the same thing applies where you have to have some kind of safe place to go to like a river or a lake if you get trapped by a fire. Even that doesn't mean you are going to be able to breathe as the fire goes by you at some point either.
These are all a part of living anywhere beautiful where wild grasses or trees grow where it's nice to live and out in nature in California. For example, I don't think California has lost any people's lives to earthquakes in maybe 20 years now but every year people die in the fires all over California or just from smoke inhalation.
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