California Was Set To Spend Over $1 Billion to Prevent Wildfires. Then Came COVID-19

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California planned to spend billions this year to prepare communities for future wildfires and climate-driven disasters. But with a $54 billion budget deficit and falling tax revenue, those efforts are now on hold.

After a series of devastating wildfires, like the 2019 Kincade Fire, California had planned on spending billions to prepare for climate-driven disasters.After a series of devastating wildfires, like the 2019 Kincade Fire, California had planned on spending billions to prepare for climate-driven disasters.With the coronavirus pandemic eroding state budgets across the country, many communities risk having this disaster make them less prepared for looming climate-driven disasters.

"Up here in the mountains, a wood-shingled roof is another name for a matchbook," says Bill Seavy, a homeowner in South Lake Tahoe.program that incentivized homeowners Through federal funding from FEMA, homeowners could get 70 percent of their cost covered for a replacement roof. Wood roofs can fuel the spread of wildfires by"Most homes are not burned by fires just marching up to them and burning them down," says Syphard."Most are destroyed because the fires are occurring during really high wind conditions and there tend to be these burning embers that can fly kilometers ahead of the fire front.

 

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People are fleeing California because it is a lefty hell hole.

Best way to sterilize a shit hole is to burn it that’s the plan they have in mind I guess , you get what you vote for your illegals can show you how to build a shed and maybe fema will ship you some blue tarps hey how about the Un they help out third world cess pools MAGA

It's odd that CA has a budget shortfall being home to Hollywood and Beverly Hills.

111,602 DEAD AMERICANS FROM THE RED HAT CULT tRUMP VIRUS

Raising taxes on the rich would solve this problem! No, no he’ll no on sensible answers to this problem. It is a fact, the rich are eating us alive

If we didn't have to use our budget surplus on buying PPE and other supplies on the open market, we would have $ for this!!!

!!!!!!!!!

Just grand

What? CA is mismanaging their money? Shocking!

Cry me a river.

All they have to do is let people thin out the brush and let the fires burn.

And if they don't manage to prevent wildfires they'll need to plan on spending hundreds of billions to repair the devastation they'll wreak across the state.

Oh boy do the Black people got you Whites pandering to show support. Even when the data says racism is not as big a problem but boy the White people running... Sick....

Yet I'm sure all the illegals will be getting money somehow. So what city this year will get burned off the map, and how many states will the smoke spread to?

All that crowing from California about propping up red states. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving place. Enjoy your bankruptcy CA. And EABODs while you are at it.

Defund the police

The sooner California breaks off and floats away towards China the better!

I bet they can find that money in some police departments...

So now both California cities and rural areas will burn to the ground.

Gotta buy tanks and teargas for police, no?

But CA has enough money to give too illegals.

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