As someone who is still positively irrationally phobic of wildfires
after fleeing one at the age of 5, I'm totally horrified at what
happened to these people and their homes and families and pets and
lives. I'd like to say that I can't imagine ... but I can still
remember what a burnt out neighborhood smells like.

That said, it will be interesting to see how Pete handles this, or if
he's totally been shut up. This is not just a case of arsonists and
poor communication - this is a major scale catastrophe of
environmental management. Pete's going to have to answer for that,
despite Rudd attempting to portray it as "we did the best we could"
and "force of nature" and "arson terrorists". That forest was a
fucking powderworks! The fire lighters merely tossed in their two sticks.