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This project. we ended up getting these documents by asking federal forest managers to share with us the correspondence they had with the company as the company was saying they needed to upgrade these lines. in this correspondence they say very clearly we need to replace 49 you toers because of age and we need to replace conductor and hear ward because of age and integrity. and it is activity at times to permit in these forests. they first proposed the work in 2013 and this isn't the only project they delayed. >> before you go, catherine, you obviously report how it appears regulators totally ...

The effort to, you know, basically distract the public from the real factor of these fires. ignition can be caused by many things, and the specifics is of what caused the initial fire is not always that relevant, because the issue with the wildfires that have seen is the remarkable rate at which they have spread and the intensity and the extent that characterizes these fires. no question at all, that we would not see the rapidly spreading wildfires in the absence of the huge amount of fuel that is around to the sustain the fire s s in the forf dry material, and the result of unprecedented heat...

Provides the dangerous winds that have whipped the fires ande change over the long-haul is killing and drying the shrubs and trees that fry the fuel. that's not to say california is blameless. urban develop an encroaching on wildlands also is a factor. >> obviously the dry conditions are big factor in this recurring drought making it worse. you can't ignore the effected state and local and federal regulations are having in much of these for us. much of them are federally owned and they haven't been manageable for decades. the fires are getting worse. in the late '80s and early '90s, the acres ...

The ap doing fact checking, nature provides dangerous winds that whipped the fires and human caused climate change over the long haul is drying shrubs and trees that provide the fuel, not to say california is blameless, urban development encroaching on wildlands is also a factor. >> obviously the dry conditions are a big factor in the recurring droughts making it worse. we can't ignore the effects state and local and federal regulations are having. much of these forest are federally owned, haven't been managed well for decades. in the late 80s 90s. and 2 dozen double to 6 million acres. the pr...

Power line may have sparked this inferno. that's certainly part of this ongoing investigation into the cause. but president trump is weighing in, and he blames the state's forest managers, tweeting this morning quote, there's no reason for these massive deadly and costly fires in california. billions of dollars are given each year with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forest. remedy now or no more fed payments. in a later tweet, the president expressed his support for the firefighters and evacuees and his condolences for the victims. federal funds have already been...