Governor Declares State of Emergency for Siskiyou County
Press release from the office of Governor Gavin Newsom:
Governor Gavin Newsom today signed an emergency proclamation to support communities recovering from several fires that started during the recent extreme heat wave, which brought record high temperatures and exacerbated drought conditions, dry fuels and the intensity and spread of fire.
The Governor proclaimed a state of emergency for Madera County due to the Fork Fire, Modoc County due to the Barnes Fire and Siskiyou County due to the Mountain Fire.
The proclamation enables the counties to access resources under the California Disaster Assistance Act, expedites debris removal and cleanup of hazardous waste resulting from the fires and supports impacted residents by easing access to unemployment benefits and waiving fees to replace documents such as driver’s licenses and birth certificates.
The text of today’s emergency proclamation can be found here.
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All this destruction and death and California still doesn’t have proper forest management policies or procedures…5 of California’s largest wild land fires have occurred on Governor Newsome’s watch…Forest management is a rigorous, methodical and time-tested combination of practices and technologies designed in part to reduce the severity and frequency of forest fires and mega fires. Wake up Sacramento.
Especially after Trump told Newsom at the scene of the fire in Paradise…
Just rake your forests!
He listened, because they’re literally raking and clearing brush all over El Dorado and Tahoe National Forests right now… you know, close to South Tahoe… where all the elitists have their vacation homes?
Just around homes and businesses, as is good policy. Raking forests is a pipe dream. Don’t fall for the orange stain rhetoric. Grow a pair.
Drive up 50 out of Sacramento through South Tahoe and and then get back to me… I’ll wait.
I cannot think of a more stupidly cruel project as scalping the topsoil. Where it was executed on the peninsula, our trees died and wetlands disappeared with the wildlife. They called it “restoration” and used State and Federal Wetland/Wildlife Enhancement monies. Enviro-Journalist line 5, please.
It won’t burn if it ain’t there, Daniel…
AmIRite?
I am sure the California Department of Forestry is completely uninformed about forestry practices and of course the US Forest Service must be as well since most of the really bad fires started on public land and a huge percentage of California is owned by the US Forest Service, the federal Bureau of Land Management, the National Parks and numerous other federal and state agencies. They only spent a minimum of 4 years learning about this stuff at college and most of them had already been loggers and woods workers for a long time. Think what climate change might really mean, drought and forest fires magnified by poor forest practices. It takes a long damned time to rake a forest. The Indians considered it a yearly practice and now we are paying for all the time we wasted. You think gasoline is expensive, try buying water in the next several years. People will go to jail for all that free water we have given Nestle’s so they could profit on it. Some of this is satire and some just fatigue from dealing with ignorance. You figure out which is which.