Hunter takes a veiled shot at New Orleans and praises the community spirit and rapid response, saying that it will “reward” them with whatever they need to fix this.
The success of the response to the fires in California is being widely compared to the failures in New Orleans related to Katrina. It started with some hucksters trying to say that it was FEMA responding to rich white Californians while they let poor blacks die in Louisiana. There's BIG push back on that, and not just from the usual suspects. A number of major media types have tried to put the clamp on that one fast.
It is more likely that the comparison will instead point out that FEMA responded exactly the same way in both cases, precisely as they were designed to do, to come in after the fact with resources for the locals, not as first responders. And in Louisiana the state and local governments had failed miserably in their basic duties. In California FEMA is there and is supplying the needed resources to a competent state and local government that is getting the job done. Lots of people have made that observation and it's beginning to become the dominant narrative. They don't like that.
On FNS Juan tried the "poor blacks died" spin and Brit smacked him, and the entire Katrina narrative, down with gusto. I believe that that bit of conventional wisdom may be on it's way to the ash heap of history, particularly with Bobby Jindal taking over. Their only hope is to stop talking about it and hope no one else notices the obvious.