I left California a couple of years ago partly because of all the fires back then too, which were also burning parts of towns not far from me.
One of three very large fires in the same small area over a short span of time was the
valley fire, which is believed to have been started by faulty hot tub wiring.
For years people in the area suspected an arsonist was the cause of at least some of them because there were so many fires and many of them without any good explanation for how they started. Last year a suspect was arrested.
Thankfully these things aren't more common because I think that the possibility for evil acts far exceeds what actually happens. The angels are still holding the winds, but it won't be for much longer. Our time to reach people with the gospel is short.
From
The Review and Herald, 1906, several months after the earthquake in San Fransisco:
“Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness; it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger.... Woe unto the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the Lord is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.”
In many places there exist conditions that make these words of warning applicable in this our day. Should not the terrible earthquake that has caused almost complete destruction of San Francisco, one of the largest cities of America, awaken a most earnest interest to seek the Lord while he may be found? Let not our ministers, in their discourses, dwell upon commonplace matters. Now is a time when there should be a humbling of the heart before God. Let us seek him while he is to be found on the pardoning side, and not on the judgment side. Wake up, my brethren and sisters. You have no time to lose. Call upon the Lord while he may be found.