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My brain again. >> people need to reach out to the governor, through their elected assembly member, to their elected senators, and demand that the utility companies be held accountable. >> yeah, id say holding pg&e accountable is the least we can do. not everyone is as hard on pg&e as me. pg&e? >> fall guy. >> fall guy? >> yeah. >> you think there is too much blame on pg&e? >> yeah. >> okay. >> because pg&e didnt come up with the policy to put out every fire, and they didnt let the forestlands g...

California history. >> agh. lucky for us the fires hadnt made it to where my family lives in oakland, but the air had gotten so bad that it wasnt safe to breathe. so my wife and i took me, the asthmatic, my elderly parent, and our kids straight to vegas. not because we wanted to gamble, but because it was close and there were cheap flights. now back then, it seemed like a oneself-in-a-lifetime thing. >> fire rescue, what is your emergency? >> but ever since, the fires in california have a gotten...

Forgotten that relationship. >> yeah. >> and forgotten that natural law is the number one ruler. for example, our ancestors knew that fire is the only thing that at a landscape scale can fight fire. >> since time immemorial, indigenous folks maintained forests known today as cultural burning by setting low intensity, controlled burns at different times, they cleared away dead brush and fuels from the forest floor, protecting the forest from larger fires. but cultural burning was about more than ...

Never seen anything like this. you can still smell, like, ash and burn, but also smell the trees. there is like a pine smell. there is also maybe a chemical smell, maybe because of all the plastic. it makes my stomach hurt a little bit. never seen this stuff this close up before. >> yeah. it was heartbreaking, man. >> its been four months. a lot of the stuff has just been sitting here. >> yeah. were in the midst of it. were in the midst of the fire. you can still -- it looks like a bomb still we...

Going on down. and if you spend time with fire, then you get the lessons. yeah, its perfect. >> wow. a very zen mind state. >> exactly. there is a lot of people who can benefit from doing this. >> you rant kidding. i pay $125 for therapy. i just come up here. >> the leaders are supposed to be in charge of californias environment still feel theyre at war with wildfire, and no one is getting it right. as long as we keep fighting that war, were spending billions of dollars a year and fire is still ...

>> this fire absolutely would not have happened if it were cared for by tribal people. and we want to be able to share our knowledge, and people are continually asking us, can we do cultural burning. well, are you tribal? and why would you want to do cultural burning without us? >> ooh, yeah. look what happened when the white man got yoga. look how that went. >> were starting to try to sway the agencies to think about native burning. >> yep, yeah. >> and thats passing on that traditional knowled...

For starting over 1500 wildfires. this includes the camp fire. and that one pg&e pleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter. for many in northern california, including me, pg&e has become a four-letter word. im just taking a poll of everybody i talk to. word association. pg&e. >> fire. >> corporate greed. >> outdated. >> outdated. >> fall guy. >> lacking. >> my word is accountability. >> accountability, yeah, that would be nice. fighting for that accountability is mark tuolumne, the...

Dispatched to tackle the blaze in their own backyard. i want to talk about the camp fire and how that affected this community, how it affected the three of you. >> matt and joe both lost their homes there. so thats what was different about the camp fire is that it finally hit our home community. >> just a blanket statement. i hanuthe camp fire much. >> okay. >> hopefully i dont choke up. i havent had to get that out of my system yet. >> yeah, you know. even with the work that you do and the work...

Called greenville home for generations. >> here, we dont have a reservation. were part of the community. so the tribe is a big part of this town. . >> long before it was ever called greenville, these were the sacred ancestral lands. >> you know we used to be large around here, but you got to remember that weve already been through the apocalypse. 97% of our tribe was either murdered or died from disease, because this was ground zero for the gold rush. >> the white settlers temperature search for...

Ago there was five-foot flames. now its sort of out. its super fascinating. is there a reason for optimism like this? >> i dont think that were going to be able to prescribe burn our way to help the entire landscape be safe. but i think it can help. >> i think we are heading in a good direction with it. now the state is finally at the point with policies that came forward today to recognize cultural burning. so its now codified in some state law, and i was able to work on some of that policy dev...