When you watch this video, note that the almost complete destruction of this town and several others was made possible by California Governor @GavinNewsom's catastrophic response to fire prevention and firefighting needs, which I'll outline in a thread below.
https://twitter.com/ActiveNorCal/status/1425156238002716674
@GavinNewsom Newsom signed an executive order authorizing prescribed burns that treated only 11,399 acres of land. He claimed 90,000 acres were treated to prevent wildfire spread. For reference, the Dixie Fire in the video above is now at almost 500,000 acres.
@GavinNewsom 2020 was the most destructive fire season in California history, and saw the largest fire ever to burn through California at over a million acres. The number of acres treated for fire prevention in 2020 was only half of what was treated in 2019.
@GavinNewsom For the past few years, we've seen firefighters brought in from around the country, and even from Canada to fight California wildfires. In response to this added need for firefighters, Newsom slashed $150 million from Cal Fire’s wildfire prevention budget in 2020.
@GavinNewsom Now that we're in the middle of the 2021 wildfire season, with the second largest wildfire in California raging and still uncontained as you read this, experts say the state did nowhere near enough to be prepared for it.
@GavinNewsom This all comes from not some conservative or ultra-right publication, but from the SFGATE. sfgate.com/politics/artic…
@GavinNewsom Newsom did not respond to "multiple requests for comment over the course of two weeks."
And of course he blames all this on "climate change."
And of course he blames all this on "climate change."
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