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As part of the $100 billion California Comeback Plan, California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed significant investments in disaster prevention and climate change mitigation Monday. The plan allocates $2 billion to bolster the state’s ability to combat wildfires through supporting wildfire suppression, improving forest health and increasing community resiliency to disasters, according to a press release from the governor’s office. CAL FIRE will also receive 12 new helicopters, seven air tankers and 30 new fire crews, the press release adds. “Climate change has created a new wildfire reality ...

Scientists contend that hot, dry, windy conditions fuel the state's most deadly and destructive blazes — not overgrown forests

SAN DIEGO — Robert Garant proudly showed off a collection of chain saws he’s used to maintain the nearly 2 acres he and his wife, Gladys, have lived on for 47 years in San Diego County’s bucolic mountain hamlet of Julian. The retired school bus driver said pruning the oak trees and dense shrubbery around their home isn’t just an aesthetic endeavor. Maintaining what’s commonly known as defensible space, he explained, can be a matter of life and death. “We actually saved our house by clearing that whole perimeter,” said Garant, recalling the ferocious Cedar fire in 2003 that bu...

Published: 14 April 2021 Oroville East, California - Ahead of peak fire season, Governor Gavin Newsom Tuesday signed a $536 million wildfire package enabling the state to take urgent action on projects that support wildfire suppression, improve forest health and build resilience in communities to help protect residents and property from catastrophic wildfires in diverse landscapes across the state. The Governor signed SB 85 alongside legislative leaders at a fuels management project in the Lake Oroville State Recreation Area that helped protect a Butte County community from last yea...

Gov. Gavin Newsom tours the Oroville East site in Butte County, California, on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. Photo courtesy of the Governor’s Office. Ahead of peak fire season, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed a $536 million wildfire package enabling the state to take urgent action on projects that support wildfire suppression, improve forest health and build resilience in communities to help protect residents and property from catastrophic wildfires in diverse landscapes across the state. The governor signed SB 85 alongside legislative leaders at a fuels management project in the Lake Orovi...