Yes, there are a lot of failings - I'm listening to Katie Helper and her contributors, posted above. It includes water supplies diverted to farming - one Californian billionaire "farmer" of pistachio nuts owns 250 square miles of orchards which use more water for irrigation that the entire supply of Los Angeles, , poor urban planning (ie building in fire prone areas) reduced funding to the fire service, the fact that this happened in winter, when fires would be less expected, and of course climate change. The conditions though were absolutely dire - for instance too windy to employ helicopters and planes, all the planning in the world will sometimes be caught short. .