Tragic fires in australia.?

Because people prefer to take the risk. I lived in Australia during the last bad fires in the eighties. People are warned time and again about having lush vegetation around their houses but it tends to be the people who are townies really. People who live in the countryside for real always have no trees and very little vegetation and guess what, their houses don't burn down. A gr fire will just rush through and not do much damage. I understand why people like to have all the vegetation because houses often look bare just standing there on an empty plot but if they want lush vegetation they should move to England. You can only have fires where there's something to burn. And I disagree with the person who said we should find ways to prevent fires - you cant change nature you have to change people's behaviour. Fires are essential to Australia but peopleneed to stop creating ridiculously dangerous places to live.