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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s amazing that folks are looking for someone to blame when Wind is the biggest contributor to the fires spreading.

There are somewhat above some things to be learned for sure and some issues that if not present would have helped.  But overall mych of What will come out of this will be things that  cost money.

Much attention is being paid to the 17M cut from the fire department budget but most folks haven’t asked why?  What other cuts were made or other things allocated funds? 
California has great fire related building codes.  Should they have made every building built before said codes be retrofitted or knocked down and rebuilt? Should the prioritize fire emergency over earthquake preparedness or police and public safety?

And while folks are talking about the impact and pointing fingers, they may want to remember how important Cali is to the US economy.[/quote]

I'm not MAGA, and I'm not pointing fingers. I do believe the fire chief. Do you? (I doubt she's a Republican)[/quote]

I’m not saying that the fire chief is lying.  The budget is likely publicly available so folks can look it up.  That said, now was not the time to be bringing that up and if it came up there were better was to respond. There are budget realities and there are impacts from them.  The fire chief, nor mayor, nor governor struck a match to start the wildfire.  So trying to lay blame with any of them is pointless.

There will be time after this is done to analyze what could have been done better but now is not that time.  This isn’t a democrat vs republican thing. Its not a California against everywhere else thing.  It’s a terrible situation and likely the biggest finding is going to be that a whole lot of historical and current decisions came together with nature to create a perfect scenario for destruction.  We learn from that and try to do better.

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