CA had major forrest fires. Trump promised funding and then cut it back. He does that often. He did the same thing to Puerto Rico after the hurricane.That was in response to the State of California's refusal to cut back under brush and do regular controlled burns. Those activities would have like saved lives in that those fires were driven by dead brush that rapidly fueled those fieres to he point that they were nearly impossible to control. Many people died as a result.
Governor Brown was a radical environmentalist and it is those policies that kept the state from taking measures that would have prevented many of these fires from getting out of control. It was the Forestry Management's job to get rid of that under brush and they failed to do so because of radical environmentalist policies.