Where would the money come from to rebuild? If the city is burned, there are no businesses open and no tax revenue to come in to the treasury. Many businesses wouldn't reopen and a lot of people would leave the city.
The Mayor would be left with smoldering ruins and no money to finance any rebuilding.
The state isn't going to give them anything and the Fed, surely, isn't.
They'd be the Mayor of nothing.....
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