Yep. These absolute morons like Bill Maher and Harvey whatever the fk his name is whining about "red tape" after this disaster?? They want less building regulations? I thought that the moron line currently running is that this is the fault of allowing developers to build where no one should be allowed to build housing? Which is it?
There will be plenty of blame to go around once the ashes cool down on this one, as there always is after a disaster. The Eaton fire in Altadena was started by a spontaneous fire at the base of a power line tower where the power should have been shut off due to high winds by the power company. Corporate greed won out over concern for the city where they make their billions, though, and now they are down several thousand residential and commercial customers as a result.
Cutting "red tape" in order to speed up rebuilding after a massive natural disaster is SOP and not even worth mentioning. It's not a political football, as much as the California hating knuckle draggers want it to be.