Slowly but surely the blind masses are waking up to the fragility of our modern infrastructure, as well as the terrible idea of millions upon millions of people living in small concentrated areas.
If you haven't seen the writing on the wall yet, MOVE out of the cities and heavy population areas. You will be glad you did.
But, one of the reasons for the fires is that due to lack of housing in cities, populations have been pushed more and more into wilderness areas, preventing proper forest management and exposing themselves to greater risks of fires.
Not to mention the second order effects of less density: more driving, more C02, more warming... more fires.
Fires on the west coast are especially damaging to homes built in rural areas. It's the people living outside of heavy population areas being hit hardest right now.
Apple isn't the end all for privacy at all. Use Linux devices in which you have 100% control over every aspect, not proprietary black boxes which still track you.