Salty Cracker and Wall Street Apes are now insinuating it. The op was a success, they've created a narrative binary where either space lasers did it or climate change (MSM narrative) did it. Meanwhile the much more likely story (strategic arson ahead of high winds + collusion with crooked state and local officials to mishandle the response on purpose) has effectively been shoved under the rug. Now instead of having the entire internet digging into that to possibly find some arsonists or conspiracies to mishandle response, they are instead "laser focused" on space lasers.
Of course, if the DEW theory is correct, this is fine. I just don't think it is.
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Being watered down in advance. That is often all that is needed. I once saw a whole hillside in Santa Barbara in flames for about two days. Some houses were lost completely. Others survived. Wetting down helped. Clearing away undergrowth in advance was important.
I am also given to understand that the wealthy survivals were in areas of the island that were not menaced by the fire. Not hard to avoid getting burned if you weren't where the flames were.