It’s a tragedy, but I remember a few years ago people were saying that it was California’s environmental regs that were to blame in many cases for these out of control fires.
Are those insane laws still in place or is this totally unrelated?
I was curious about that and Googled it a few days ago, California has graciously increased the distance you can legally clear brush around your house from 30 feet to 100 feet. Not sure how much difference that would have made with the winds they are dealing with.
I know a bunch of them were whining a few years ago about controlled burns polluting atmosphere and hurting their view of the skyline. They’d rather lose the controlled burns and have their entire neighborhood go up in an inferno. It’s that California logic.