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"Entire swaths of the city are gone.
There was no water in the hydrants. Nobody cleared the brush, no controlled burns, nothing.
The Pacific Palisades reservoir was offline when the fires arrived.
The mayor was in Africa, and the governor was on his vineyard.
The government completely bungled the response.
Now we know one or two of the fires were arson.
If it’s homeless people, they’re either crazy or someone told them to blend in—they won’t notice, they won’t care."