1/2 million acres destroyed, 1000 homes and everything in them, because a trucker's trailer was sparking

the Carr Fire could have been stopped by two actions:

The trailer with the sparking wheel pulled into a wide turn out, but CHOSE to continue. 

 A contractor with a big bulldozer on a lowboy pulled over, unloaded and started to work on the small fire. A Federal person from the Whiskeytown Federal Area stopped and forced the man to stop working on Government land; Federal crews must do the work.

The Carr fire was in the last week of July 2018 started at the intersection of the 299 at Whsikeytown. 

At the time it was the sixth-most destructive fire in California history (now the ninth-most destructive fire)

as well as the seventh-largest wildfire in recorded California history (now the fourteenth-largest)

he Carr Fire cost over $1.659 billion (2018 USD), including $1.5 billion in insured losses and more than $158.7 million in suppression costs.

 At its height, the fire engaged as many as 4,766 personnel from multiple agencies.

The fire was started when a flat tire on a vehicle caused the wheel's rim to scrape against the asphalt, creating sparks. 

One of the tires on the trailer blew out, causing the steel rim to scrape along the pavement, generating sparks that ignited dry vegetation along the edge of the highway. Wind caused the fire to spread quickly. Hot conditions and steep, inaccessible terrain presented challenges for fire crews

A powerful fire whirl with winds estimated in excess of 143 mph — equivalent to an EF3 tornado —developed within the Carr Fire in Redding.

Remaining on the ground from 7:30–8:00 p.m., the fire whirl reached an estimated height of 18,000 ft and caused extensive tornado-like damage while spreading the fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carr_Fire

And none of that would have happened if the trucker had just pulled over when he noticed the blow out, or the sparks.