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When COVID-19 blew a hole in California’s spending plans last spring, one of the things state budget-cutters took an axe to was wildfire prevention. A $100-million pilot project to outfit older homes with fire-resistant materials was dropped. Another $165 million earmarked for community protection and wildland fuel-reduction fell to less than $10 million. A few months later, the August siege of dry lightning turned 2020 into a record-shattering wildfire year. The state’s emergency firefighting costs are expected to hit $1.3 billion, pushing the California Department of Forestry and Fire P...

Billions of dollars spent on fighting California wildfires, but little on prevention Bettina Boxall © (Noah Berger / Associated Press ) A Butte County home burns in the Bear fire, part of the lightning-sparked North Complex that left 15 dead. (Noah Berger / Associated Press ) When COVID-19 blew a hole in California’s spending plans last spring, one of the things state budget-cutters took an axe to was wildfire prevention. A $100-million pilot project to outfit older homes with fire-resistant materials was dropped. Another $165 million earmarked for community protection an...

The Biden administration can't stop wildfires. But it can make them less destructive. Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post Dec. 22, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Fields are watered on a morning where the atmosphere is mixed with fog and wildfire smoke from a near by wildfire in Salinas, Calif., on Aug. 28.Washington Post photo by Melina Mara Rarely in recent memory has the United States seen a wildfire season as awful as in 2020. Scorching temperatures turned vast swaths of forest into tinder. Ferocious winds whipped small sparks into infernos, spinning up towering smoke clouds and terrifying fire ...

estimates could have come in at $25, $35, $38 was considered pretty big. >> that was based on investor interest. remember, facebook went on this road show engaging investor interest and there was a lot of investor interest and facebook thought that it could get that price. and it did. it did get that price. look where it ended today. but clearly, what the expectations is for the hype though for the hype when you see how these other social networking sites did in their ipo, linked dml, google, they have jumped tremendously since their ipo day. that's why that expectation to see facebo...

us a nice weekend as well. forecast for today, sunshine, low humidity, 76 your daytime high in washington and 78 in fredericksburg. warmer tomorrow. details on that in a couple of minutes. let's see traffic with julie wright. >> on the roads, that's where we find the crew in halifax along 66. if you are traveling inbound, slow moving from business 234 toward centreville. as you work your way east of 123 headed in towards the capital beltway the accident activity cleared. road open once again but wall- to-wall traffic eastbound 66 in towards the capital beltway. on the other side of...