I don't understand why the attack on the reservoir being empty for maintenance

[question everything]

At least, when we lived in California in the 90s, the Santa Ana winds cane in September and October. I think that fire season could start again in May. So December January should be the ideal time for maintenance, no?

And I don’t understand the attack on the Mayor. She did not know that fires would start when she traveled abroad.

Do people and “pundits” are just looking for easy targets?

Found this one:

January is an odd time for wildfires in California

This fire is unprecedented. In 10 years of doing this, I've never flown fire in the United States in January. Working fires in January usually means we're in Australia, Mexico, and Chile.

We're in the off-season. That's why all four of our DC-10s aren't here; the other two are in maintenance. Typically, we park our airplanes in October or November, and we'll do recurrent annual training in February and March before the first airplanes go out on contract in mid to late March.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/im-pilot-fighting-ca-wildfires-115002768.html