Difficulties fighting Calif. fires so obvious, even "Brownie" recognizes it

You know things are bad when it takes former FEMA Director Michael “Heckuva Job Brownie” Brown to point out that the National Guard is stretched too thin to help the California firefighters. But on Wednesday, he did just that:

“The White House needs to recognize that we are overstretched. They need to increase the size of the regular Army and stop relying so much on the National Guard.”

Huh.

According to the report by WJLA News in Washington DC, Brown also said,

“FEMA's job is to pick up the phone and call another Governor and say 'Hey California is short on National Guard, can you spare a few?' but you can call any Governor in the country and everybody is stretched.”

Orange County Fire Chief Chip Prather recently told reporters that firefighters' lives were threatened because too few crews were on the ground. He said a quick deployment of aircraft could have corralled a massive blaze near Irvine.