well the officials have probably been slacking on establishing a good preventative and effective method to contain wild fires even after the cedar fires.
But again these fires are huge and with extremely high winds.
Its hard to built back fires and ditches quick enough or effective enough because of the shear size of the fire perimeter and the speed of it.
And theres no plane or vehicle big enough to drop any effective amount of the special fire chemical liquid to contain the fire.
Basically when you have a fire this huge... no one can really do crap about it until it burns itself out.
A good site to go to is
http://www.sdcountyemergency.com/
Theres a updated PDF of a map that shows where the fire perimeter and evacuation areas are.
Its a good thing to look at it to see where you stand.
I'm not sure the exact wind flow direction is ... but if you know that then it'll help you figure out if it might hit your area.
I don't know how long it'll burn but since its 0-5% contained and it looks like the wind wont give up .. it might go pretty far.
Anyways hope everyones safe.... but best thing to do is look at the map and find out exactly what your situation is.