Soooo when is it NOT Fire Season??? Franklin fire in Malibu CA

Doesn't some of the issue also have to do with the system having been originally built for a fraction of the homes and population now reliant upon it?

To be fair, I did hear the mayor's assertion basically that the hydrant system isn't designed to deal with this magnitude. Her point being, I guess, that residential hydrant systems are designed for more single house usages than entire blocks. And obviously the winds didn't allow for air support. But, yeah, it does stand to reason that if the original system is intended for a less dense population, it's just compounding. But this event? This doesn't happen for just one reason. And that's the problem.