Soooo when is it NOT Fire Season??? Franklin fire in Malibu CA

SamAndreas said

A well kept building trades secret is that steel is flammable if it is heated to above 1,600 degrees and an air blast or pure oxygen is added. That's why steel in buildings is often coated with a thick layer of fire stop. The fire stop slows the heating process such that a wood fire can burn, and burn out and cool down before it heats the steel too hot.

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Yes everyone needs to realize that no building material is "fireproof." Some assemblies are fire rated in that they are rated to withstand fire for X hours (such as the steel fireproofing, which can be thickened to achieve 1,2,3,4 hr ratings.) But even then, the whole concept of fire-rating structures is to give everyone enough time to get out before the building burns to the ground.
And they don't even apply to single family residential.
I think California has added some standards about not having "combustable" materials at this point, which would slow down the fire assuming there is no other fuel (such as trees or gas lines) but nothing is "fireproof".