Why do the latest Smokey the Bear ads say "only you can prevent wild fires" but it...

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...used to be "forest fires"? Only one of three explanations can be behind this change in phrasiology:

1. People can't prevent forest fires, but they CAN prevent wild fires
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2. People can prevent both forest fires and wild fires, but the ad only focuses on wild fires
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3. There is a change in definition as to what constitutes forest fires vs. wild fires since the original ads from 40 years ago. I would think that if anything, people can prevent forest fires more than wild fires, because wild fires are started by lightening right?
Personally, I think it's nonsense to say that only one person or even all of humanity can prevent either a forest fire or a wild fire. They have happened since trees existed.
 
The big disasters have not been forrest fires. There is a greater need now to get people to be more careful in the grassy hills, especially in Southern California. It's not just forrests. And most of the big disasterous fires are indeed caused by careless people.
 
In our region of Florida there are scheduled "burns" that are purposely set and monitored so as to prevent natural fires such as lightening strikes starting fires that destroy valuable property.

These are forest fires but they are not wild fires. Some of the uncontrolled fires have destroyed homes and have caused so much smoke that I-95 and other routes have been impassable.
 
Wild fires is a category which encompasses forest fires, among other types of fire. It's any fire which is not contained. Sort of like "rectangle" as a category also encompasses "square". They want you to help prevent ALL wildfires, not just forest fires.
 
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