“It’s not incompetence, it is malign neglect.“
Most of the burned-out people voted for the politicians and their apparatchiks who gave them this fire.


https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/palisades-inferno-forces-more-evacuations-burns-near-405-freeway
They voted for it because, as Josh Sautter, president of the Encino Neighborhood Council said:
“We didn’t think that it was something that would really affect us — until it did.”
