"less damaging" to who or what?  
Fires on our coastline have been part of nature over millennia, rejuvenating itself.  During mid 1800's fires burnt for weeks between Swellendam en Uitenhage: prayers won't change mother Nature!  Almost every 100 years the most northern forests in Scandinavian countries are destroyed by natural fires, and people accept it as part of nature's natural cycles (or the fury of Thor!).  Add to the elements, humanity's selfish habits causing artificial climate change, and total disaster is for sure. We are the damaging FIRE and the warm destructive NW wind, NO god and no prayer shall prevent it.