Of biased information
There seem to be so many people in charge of so many things that it has become one huge bureaucracy there and no one is accountable to anything. And this fire started and spread under that.
It probably explains why the insurance companies were leaving. They saw this huge pile of risk and a literal time bomb that was set.
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/fire/202213#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20National%20Interagency,wildfire%20statistics%20visit%20U.S.%20Wildfires.
This shows a general upward trend.
https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-wildfires
This show even more.
It’s an emergency waiting to happen.
And boom. It happened