We do have a fleet of tankers. One of their bases is about 4 miles from my house. Regardless of suppression tactics or political opinions about land management, I think people in general just don't have any idea how much forested land is in the state of California. For instance, Maine is almost 90% forest-- and contains about 17 million acres. California has 33 million acres of forest-- in a total area of 105 million acres. The entire state of New York would fit in California's forested land, with room left over for Connecticut. Fire is nothing new to California. And yeah, they've gotten more frequent, and worse. But arguing about why serves no purpose. We're all gonna have to figure out how to deal with it, or all go up in flames.

For final (relevant) point of comparison, the Camp Fire has burned an area larger than the Nebraska National Forest-- and it's just 55% contained.