We do aid Canada
The United States has repeatedly sent wildland firefighters, aircraft, and support personnel to Canada under a long‑standing mutual‑aid agreement dating back to 1982 factually.co+1. These deployments are coordinated through the U.S. National Interagency Coordination Center (NICC) and the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) and are activated when Canadian authorities request assistance during severe wildfire seasons factually.co.
And in Ca the state emptied a reservoir, had multple fire trucks out of service and told the dept to stand down and be careful about damaging trees and bushes and of course the missing mayor who ignored warnings of potential fires
Evidence includes text messages that appear to show California State Parks employees seeking to limit the impact of fire suppression to protect endangered plants; an unreleased agency document stating that the park’s preferred policy is to let the area burn in a wildfire event; and secret maps that attempt to constrain firefighting operations in certain areas of the park—even adjacent to densely populated areas—to protect “sensitive natural and cultural resources” like endangered plants and Native American archaeological sites. It also includes allegations that state employees failed to monitor the smoldering burn scar in the days before the January 7 conflagration, despite nearly half a century of accumulated vegetation and forecasters issuing their direst warnings.
The plant matter in that area hadn’t burned since 1978—nearly half a century of accumulated fuel
California State Parks completed a draft Wildfire Management Plan for Topanga State Park. The document, obtained through public records requests by the fire victims’ attorneys, reveals a system of policies and maps designed to restrict firefighting operations on state parkland to protect “sensitive cultural and natural resources.” Those restrictions, attorneys for the Palisades fire victims allege, shaped the response to the New Year’s Eve fire. The plan designates large swaths of the park as “avoidance areas,” where normal firefighting tactics are typically restricted. Within these zones, “no heavy equipment, vehicles, and retardant are allowed,” the plan states, and “fire suppression activities may not occur within these areas without consultation of an Agency Representative, or a Resource Advisor assigned to the incident.” The plan also says that no “mop-up” operations to extinguish smoldering hot spots are allowed in these areas “without the presence of an archeologist READ [resource advisor]”—meaning that thoroughly putting out a fire required bureaucratic oversight.