Who was the moron who leased out the city land under and beside the 10 to build A large bonfire? Someone paid off the fire marshal.
BINGO. In a sense, it doesn’t matter what started it. Fires happen, whether it’s homeless warming fires, stealing electricity, or whatever. If a small fire involving homeless tents or their shopping carts had broken out, the FD could send out a single engine, pull a line off the rack, and have it out in 10 minutes. The fact that the State allowed massive amounts of combustible material to be stored under a large unsprinklered area is criminal negligence.