California is a GD tinderbox by design.
Cali's made major budget cuts to fire prvention and safety in the past 1.5 years. Moonbeam Brown cut over $100million in funding to fire and prevention due to the end of the drought. No shit. Besides that, in the past year alone, they've reduced or eliminated programs for prison worker brush cleanup, public exposure and firebreak safety training, helicopter flyovers looking for hot spots, firebreak installs and maintenance and tree line and underbrush cleanup. These cuts are likely due to that state being broke as a fvck from scores of other bad polices.
As a result, Cali has had nearly 7,600 fires this year alone, eclipsing the yearly average by over 2000 fires. More fires this year than in the drought years preceding it.
Most of these changes happened after March 6th, the day their funding was stopped for supporting sanctuary cities and Sessions filed that lawsuit against them.
Cali is $426 BILLION in debt.
Shit stinks. Pass the federal relief funds, please.