Yeah, this article made me feel a little vindicated about this comment I made a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42676441 https://news.ycom

Yeah, this article made me feel a little vindicated about this comment I made a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42676441 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42676441 Especially in Altadena (most of which is in a flat valley), it was very clear this was an urban fire - tons of pictures with every house burnt to the ground, but trees standing all around unscathed. I am a little worried about how things get rebuilt, given the political incentives are now to make rebuilding as easy (read: cheaply) as possible. I'm all for waiving a lot of the environmental rules that are just a Byzantine labyrinth that are primarily used by neighbors to restrict growth they don't want, but I think that replacing Altadena with a bunch of densely packed, wood framed, shingled roofs is just adding kindling, literally, to the next fire.