Hiring Private Firefighters is "Tone-Deaf" Apparently

Wealthy Californians are getting slammed online for hiring private firefighters to protect their assets and businesses.

Squirrel! Let's all get mad at how people react to bad things instead of figure out who caused it. I get it, people are frustrated. Being mad at rich people is always an easy scapegoat.

It seems unfair, it seems wrong, but I wonder what they really feel is a better alternative? Letting it burn?

If the crews were available to work, that means nobody else hired them. So what should they have done? Just say, "oh man, I wouldn't want to look tone-deaf, I better let my multimillion-dollar mall burn to the ground and have all the businesses and tenants get completed destroyed."

What is the alternative? Anything to take the focus away from the real culprits.