It was also a lack of water in one of the reservoirs, a cut in the fire department budget, the fractured command structure of the local fire departments, the mayor being out of the country, failure to clear deadfall in the local forests, 100s of fire engines being down for maintenance, fire engines from other states being waylaid for emissions testing, fire equipment donated to Ukraine, a river being diverted into the ocean to save an endangered invasive fish species, and the fire department chief having a philosophy that it’s not her problem if people are stuck in a fire.
Fires get sparked all the time. That’s why we have fire departments: not to prevent fires from sparking, but to prevent them from spreading.
It was also a lack of water in one of the reservoirs, a cut in the fire department budget, the fractured command structure of the local fire departments, the mayor being out of the country, failure to clear deadfall in the local forests, 100s of fire engines being down for maintenance, fire engines from other states being waylaid for emissions testing, fire equipment donated to Ukraine, a river being diverted into the ocean to save an endangered invasive fish species, and the fire department chief having a philosophy that it’s not her problem if people are stuck in a fire.
Fires get sparked all the time. That’s why we have fire departments: not to prevent fires from sparking, but to prevent them from spreading.