I used to live in Cali so on the one hand, my heart goes out to them. On the other hand...

California used to be all forest. Very, very dense forest, all the way up to the beach. When Cali decided over about 100 years to clear all of that but the northern forest, Cali decided to turn California into a desert, but not just any desert. See, in Arizona, despite it being so much hotter, do you see those kinds of fires? No, because sand doesn't burn. Californians, over a century or so, they decided to set up a uniquely formidable firetrap. See, they have this kind of brush that grows naturally there and it is everywhere, and it is both dry AND oily!

Add in Santa Ana winds and massive overdevelopment and constant drought, and of course California was destined to burn to the ground. This is not some sudden bizarre thing that came out of nowhere. People have been seeing this coming for the last twenty years, but they just mostly ignored it. Well, this is what happens when you completely fuck the landscape and then try to artificially pump it full of water. It's satisfying to see those rich fuckheads in Bel-Air, the descendants of the very people who are most directly responsible for fucking the landscape, it's satisfying to see their homes burn down. It just hugely sucks that most of the people getting hit are just normal folks who don't deserve it.