Lets go with 'layoff' or 'release' unless that's somehow worse than 'fire' in this context. Also what if the machinery of this arm of government isn't (current

Lets go with 'layoff' or 'release' unless that's somehow worse than 'fire' in this context. Also what if the machinery of this arm of government isn't (currently) optimizing the sum of risk-adjusted damage due to mudslides and fires? How do you propose we start over? As much as I would like to suspect that "Edward Helmore" might have some background in Civil Engineering or statecraft more generally, it seems he's just a New York-based author who writes for a British publication, maybe he's not the best to defer for about the consequences of this area...? I mean, it's not joke, people lose homes in fires and mudslides, and it's not like Trump doesn't know this, but if the current regime isn't optimally preventing or responding to these, then your options are pretty much to just try again.