Yes, Leighton Woodhouse writes that LA was "built to burn" -- but he does NOT argue that "progressive politicians aren't to blame". In fact, he says: "Certainly, there is blame to go around—Mayor Karen Bass shouldn’t have been in Ghana; we need to know why the fire hydrants went dry", etc. His point was that, with the knowledge about LA's natural burnability, much more could have been, and was NOT, done. The story was NOT a big "oh well".