Cost of fighting six California wildfires reaches nearly $40M

Breitbart ^ | 12 Dec 2017 | by UPI

[eyeamok]

Costs of fighting all six major fires have risen to nearly $40 million, officials said. More than 9,500 firefighters from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington state are working the flames, with 7,000 of those on the Thomas Fire alone.

In addition to the 1,000-plus structures destroyed, hundreds of homes have been torched, almost 100,000 people have been evacuated, 85,000 have been left without power and damages total about $10 billion.

[eyeamok]

Just to put things in perspective here:

California spends $40 Million Dollars EVERY SINGLE DAY to service the Illegal Alien population

California spends MORE than this paltry $10 Billion dollars every year just to service the Illegal Alien population.

One day without an Illegal covers the cost to fight ALL these fires

One Year without an Illegal more than covers the damage caused by theses fires.

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Brush abatement in action.

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[DoughtyOne]

That does put it in perspective doesn’t it.

[napscoordinator]

I don’t understand why it should cost the federal or even state government money (except salaries) for fires. Everyone has house insurance so that is covered. The businesses have insurance as well so I don’t see where giving people money is necessary. I never understood that. Flooding is a bit difference since the greedy insurance companies won’t give out flood insurance policies or they find some reason not to pay them.

[bgill]

There isn’t a single day that your tax dollars aren’t going to Kalifornica for their fires and their illegals. Not one single day.

[napscoordinator]

I believe that and it pisses me off when I see liberals say, but California sends more money to Washington then it gets back. I say who’s fault is that and I doubt it is even true. Blue states pay for red states...hear that constantly. Frustrating.

[morphing libertarian]

Is that all

[FrogMom]

I also saw an headline crawl somewhere (was in California at the time) that said Border Patrol had arrested an illegal suspected of starting the fire in Ventura County. When I was free, I went looking for info about it and could find nothing. Wish we had some honest press SOMEWHERE!

[butlerweave]

I bet Brown’s home is claer of all the Brush

[vette6387]

“I bet Brown’s home is claer of all the Brush”

Brown’s private residence is in the Oakland hills.

[Robert DeLong]

Gross mismanagement of their forests are coming home to bite them.

[eyeamok]

Most everything that burned in Ventura COunty has been closed to ALL HUMAN Activity to protect a salamander, in my neighborhood it’s a frog that shut down the Angeles National Forest.

[Seruzawa]

Hey Kalifornia Kucks! How’s the environmental policy workin’ for ya?

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Anyone hear any ideas on what is starting these fires?

I am curious, I haven’t heard a peep about this.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Don’t forget all the money blown on the choo-choo to nowhere.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Anyone hear any ideas on what is starting these fires?

I am curious, I haven’t heard a peep about this.

[WMarshal]

Costs of not actively spending to prevent a often repeating disaster is billions. Also, if I was the governor of California I would have rdered every bureaucrat that could not get a doctor's release to get out of their offices to clear firebreaks under supervision of the firefighters.

[WMarshal]

“Most everything that burned in Ventura COunty has been closed to ALL HUMAN Activity to protect a salamander, in my neighborhood it’s a frog that shut down the Angeles National Forest.”

I’ll bet those salamanders wish that they might have been stepped on once or twice instead of being burned to death.

[Vinnie]

Anyone hear any ideas on what is starting these fires?

I am curious, I haven’t heard a peep about this.

I was just getting ready to ask the same question.