Was just reading some articles and a lot of wealthy areas have lost a lot of the homes in them, which is honestly somewhat surprising, but fire does not descern between poor and wealthy after all. IIRC, environmentalists make controlled burns controversial in left-wing areas, so that's a lot of why wildfires happen in the first place, when they aren't done via arson anyways.
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I'm loathe to defend insurance companies, but it's even worse than that.
The state of California instituted price controls for insurance. So the insurance companies were unable to price the policies in a way to account for all the fires and the expense of doing business in California.
So they left. Not because they somehow knew this specific event was coming -- but because some eventual event was inevitable and would have bankrupted them. They left because they were literally driven out of business from California.
California wanted the rest of the country to pay higher premiums to subsidize losses in their state. That didn't work out so well for them.
Lots of hands going to be held out for bailouts.
It'll never be proven, but I think all thinking people have the word "arson" rattling around in the back of their heads regarding this.
I saw that while watching SideScrollers today. Might upload that.