**BREAKING: SIMI VALLEY FIRE – “COMMON SENSE” FAIL YIELDS DISASTER**

BREAKING: SIMI VALLEY FIRE – “COMMON SENSE” FAIL YIELDS DISASTER

Local resident Karen Mitchell didn’t hold back in the Simi Valley Community Watch group tonight, and her post is already going viral.

“I’m sorry, but where was the common sense?” she wrote. “You’ve got a drought-baked hill that hasn’t seen rain in six months. You’ve got winds gusting to 50 mph. And someone still decided to park a hot work truck with a dragging chain right next to dry brush? I saw the sparks myself from my backyard. One spark. That’s all it took. Now 200 acres are gone, families are evacuated, and my neighbor’s shed is a pile of ash. We don’t need more government studies. We need people to look outside their window and think, ‘Hey, maybe this is a bad idea.’ Common sense isn’t common anymore, and we’re all paying the price.”

The post has racked up 12K reactions and 4K shares in under an hour, with commenters split between “She’s absolutely right” and “We don’t know the full story yet.”

One reply that’s gaining traction: “Common sense would’ve been having a fire extinguisher and a water hose ready. But no. We wait until the whole canyon is burning to blame the guy with the truck.”

Local officials have not confirmed the cause, but Mitchell’s warning is clear: “We live in a tinderbox. Act like it.”