Why didn’t Gov. Brown do anything to stop this?
I'm interested to know whether anything could have stopped this. This SF Chronicle article says that a very similar fire occurred in 1964, but of course the impact was much less because what is now Wine Country was far less developed 50 years ago.
Knowing that California just went through a very wet winter that provided a heavy fuel load, is there anything that a far-sighted government, industry, and populace could have economically done to prevent this disaster?
Joe Bastardi does a great job of pointing to times in the past that were very similar to the current day, weather-wise. Is there a Joe Bastardi of fire forecasting? Where was the insurance industry while the conditions for this fire were being established? Couldn't they have raised an alarm?