Posted on 11/22/2018 7:21:49 AM PST by Kaslin
It’s hard to imagine the real destruction of the California wildfires. Scores of people dead, hundreds missing, thousands of structures destroyed, and hundreds of acres burned to the ground. It’s a tragedy the likes of which our nation has never seen before.
In times like these, those affected by the wildfires need urgent assistance, and that’s exactly what they’re getting from the Trump administration.
The scale of the disaster is hard to overstate. This year marks the state’s worst fire season ever, punctuated by the “Camp” and “Woolsey” fires.
The Camp fire alone has claimed at least 77 lives, out of a total of at least 94 fire-related deaths for the season. That same fire has all but wiped out Paradise, California, a prosperous community of 26,000, and sent the residents of a dozen other towns fleeing for their lives. All told, more than 1.6 million acreshave been set ablaze this year. That’s an area bigger than the entire state of Delaware.
Luckily, our brave firefighters and other first responders appear to have turned the corner in their battle with the blaze. The massive Woolsey brushfire in Southern California is 96 percent contained, while the Camp Fire in the Central Valley is finally 70 percent contained with the end of danger now just barely in sight.
President Trump and his administration have been there for every part of this fight. This past weekend, President Trump visited California to consult with local leaders. He hosted Governor Jerry Brown aboard Air Force One, and toured the devastation with Brown, Governor-elect Gavin Newsom, Paradise Mayor Jody Jones, and U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
Also accompanying President Trump was FEMA Administrator Brock Long, who is tasked with implementing the robust federal response to this disaster. Even before the President’s major disaster declaration, FEMA was on the scene helping state and local first responders and providing shelter and other assistance to those driven from their homes. With President Trump’s declaration in effect, FEMA is setting up disaster recovery centers across the wildfire zones for those directly affected.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has also visited California no fewer than four times to help coordinate the response to this year’s record-setting fire season. Some of the blazes began or touched on federal lands, and the Department of the Interior and its Bureau of Land Management are integral to studying the causes to help prevent these tragedies from recurring in the future.
Wildfires are an inevitable feature of the American West, and the drought conditions this year all but guaranteed that a spark would catch somewhere. This administration recognizes, however, that we must provide better management, prevention, and response in the future.
God willing, we’ve rounded the corner on 2018’s wildfire disasters in California. The people most affected can now begin to mourn their friends, repair their property, and rebuild their lives.
It’s the federal government’s duty to help them through this ordeal and work to ensure that this scale of devastation can never happen again. It’s a duty from which this administration will not shrink.
On this Thanksgiving Day, prayers for everyone affected by these fires.
...keep in mind CA passed a bipartisan
bill recent like funding the forestry
people to clear out the the debris and
part of the 129 million dead trees in CA.....but Moonbeam killed that, the deaths and destruction is at his feet.
On the John and Ken radio show on 640am in southern California they revealed that the reason so many died up in Paradise, CA was because of the democrat parties “road diets” that took away lanes and restricted the number of cars. They literally poured concrete to extend out the sidewalk and added in bollards (concrete pillars) and destroyed the lane from being used. People were trapped.
The guy they had on was explaining all the other places in the state where this is going on. The democrats want you in buses or riding a bike. In the case of Paradise, the city took money from the state to fix the roads and the democrats said they had to take away lanes.
In other states this is happening. In Arizona they made roads so narrow that fire engines cannot get in and even demonstrated why so instead of protecting lives the democrats rewrote the code saying it was now legal.
Paradise Narrowed Main Route in “Road Diet” Plan Years Ago
https://kfiam640.iheart.com/featured/john-and-ken/content/2018-11-21-paradise-narrowed-main-route-in-road-diet-plan-years-ago/
LA Times
https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-paradise-evacuation-road-20181120-story.html
Up to 27,000 residents tried to escape the worst wildfire in California history, finding themselves stuck in gridlock traffic with some even perishing in their vehicles as the flames swallowed them.
The mayor did not care and deflected the blame!
Yes indeed. I don't know why authors of pieces such as this one lie so brazenly. I realize most have little to no historical knowledge, but they should know the internet gives anyone the ability to quickly compare such statements with the historical record.
If the 600 missing aren't eventually accounted for in shelters or with relatives, it will be the greatest US single-event loss of life since 9/11.
If you take into account the amount of Federal money and mobilization and recrimination that occurred after 9/11, if heads don't roll in California government and natural resources departments, then you know the MSM was successful in covering for Moonbeam and #Karamela and Gavin Gruesome beyond their wildest dreams.
This is literally a black eye on California one-party government and the President is missing an opportunity to drive a wedge into progressive tree-hugging politics.
"Never let a crisis go to waste!" -- Rahm Emanuel, Bobo’s Chief of Staff
Yep. I have been saying for years while living here in Placerville and going up to the Crystal Basin and hiking that we need to get on the dead growth. But the enviro-nazi’s think the pink assed tree knat is more important then the forests and humans.
Newsome is going to be just as bad.
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