That is not the reality on the ground. Perhaps you need to see the terrain where the fires burn and how they are started and where the homes are—I know its a favorite sagying to blame Sacrtamento, and they do deserve some blame, but PG ane E also was to blame and sometimes it just is what it is...
I’m in the midwest so can’t claim local knowledge. But I’m trying to pay some attention. I had friends living in Paradise who were lucky to be out of town when it burned. Different rates of big fires in the mostly privately held East vs. the mostly governmently held land of the West suggests that folks trying to protect their own capital somehow get better results than folks who lack that motivation. Some of it could be differing terrain and differing local weather patterns. But at least some of the involved terrain and weather should have matches in the East, yet the results don’t seem to match. Power companies are pretty regulated in general. If fires are being sparked from the PG&E transmission lines is it being allowed to minimize tinder build up around them? Is it even allowed to put access roads into the wilderness to make tinder removal, and efficient firefighting when necessary, possible? If being allowed only to have, but not to maintain, a transmission network the company doesn’t deserve all the blame. And certainly doesn’t deserve to have its fees converted into a de facto judicially mandated tax on energy use by the rest of its customers, in lieu of the up front carbon taxes the politicians desire but aren’t willing to pass. Although to the extent corporate policy and lobbying parallels and shares bad governmental land management policy both guilty sides should share in the responsibility.