They said they can’t post firefighters at the sites of past fires, but this is a red herring, they don’t need to. Aerial IR imagery could easily see if a fire still has burning embers and is at risk of reigniting. The cost would be well under $1 million, and possibly under $100k. They might have been able to afford that with only a slight reduction in the gay choir, etc.
Autonomous drones with various lenses sending data to AI image reading systems could do it very inexpensively. The AI can alert the FD of various types of risks including smoldering fires, risky dense shrubbery or dead brush in the hillsides etc.
Government efficiency isn’t exactly the name of the game in California politics but the entire state needs to rethink and redo the way it works. The path we are on is unsustainable. Lots of public servants get paid a lot of money to deliver too few services; and deliver them poorly and without much success to show for the efforts. We are staring at an $80 billion budget deficit and 15,000 of the wealthier people just got decades of tax write offs. Private business efficiency and productivity will decline in the near term as well, and housing costs will be going up with a massive increase in demand and takedown of supply. And it’s been a week, not a single person of “authority” is taking the lead or being inspirational. They have neglected the most important and basic services in favor of false virtues and now they are already neck deep in the blame game. All these losers have got to go.