The winds made these spread faster and worse than they normally would have. Three of the four fires seemed to start around the same time which seems very strange IMO.
Since last night the winds have died down a bit which will help but so many neighborhoods and people lost their homes already, 5 lost their lives.
Insurance companies were pulling out fire coverage for a lot of these residents 2 weeks ago, which again seems odd. Almost as if they suspected this could happen and knew the current leaders in California, including Governor Newsom, did little to nothing to prepare for this event. These fires happen every so many years and have done so for decades but instead of focusing on being prepared and making sure the fire hydrants had water reverses... The last few years California has focused on DEI, releasing water because they had no where to store it, funded pointless programs that made California worse... I can go on and on.
This might end up being the worst wildfire in US history.
This is all down to failed planning and policy. While they can't manage to get water to these areas, our government just announced another 500 million to Ukraine by the way.