It’s beyond incompetence.
I’m not saying that a DEW was used, but the evidence points to deliberate actions to start the fires. And there are some with motive and the means to make it happen.
THAT is what I expect O’Keefe to uncover. And it will upset the local Po-Po and politicians greatly, since they and their donors/owners stand to gain by the destruction of these homes and businesses.
The mass murder of locals is just collateral damage to them.
You don't need a fancy ray gun to start a brushfire. In 1978, someone following a plan cooked up in a publication called the Anarchist Cookbook created a do-it-yourself time bomb by lighting a cigarette, placing into a book of matches, and then stuffing the cigarette and match book into a Dixie cup which he then tossed into a dry bush at the edge of Whizzin's Shopping Center in Agoura, Calif.
The arsonist then went on his merry way as the cigarette slowly burned down and was long gone when the flame reached the matches and ignited them. The flame from the matches ignited the Dixie cup, and the burning cup ignited the bush. The resulting brushfire, fanned by Santa Ana winds, then burned all the way to the Pacific Ocean, about 15 miles away, and destroyed dozens of homes and other structures.