Absolutely agree. 

While I summarized the economic points as I shared the post, this summarizes one of the underlying root causes. 

Multiple things have gone wrong:

- overall governance incompetence 

- DEI (yet to see categoric data on this, but comprising merit for diversity is a killer…for anything)

- Recent LAFD Budget cuts and how the remaining money was used 

- Logging industry issue as you mention (propelled by environmental groups)

- I also read reports that a billion plus was approved in 2014 to build a water reservoir and fire hydrants. Not much 
was done and fire hydrants ran dry. 

- Insurance price controls

- overall, lacking and weak initial response. Lack of preparedness. 

Point is, what do we do from here?