Posted on 11/17/2018 5:30:20 PM PST by Mariner
PARADISE - President Donald Trump toured the damage wrought by California’s deadliest wildfire Saturday, visiting the ruins of a mobile home park and pressing his argument that the state’s forests must be managed more aggressively to prevent future disasters.
With the death toll from the Camp Fire at 71 and rising, Trump met with Paradise Mayor Jody Jones and toured the charred wreckage of the Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park. They passed a destroyed home where someone had hung an American flag, and picked their way past a downed streetlamp and other debris.
Bits of ash floated in the air, although neither the president or anyone in his entourage wore masks. Trump later was briefed on details of the fire by Cal Fire officials at the agency’s incident command post in nearby Chico.
“We’ve never seen anything like this,” Trump said. “It looks like total devastation.”
He was accompanied by Gov. Jerry Brown and Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom, two Democrats who’ve been outspoken adversaries of the Republican president. The two sides tried to downplay their differences, but some tensions were clear as the visit progressed.
Administrator Brock Long of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, making his second visit to the area in four days, told Trump it was “probably the worst disaster that I’ve seen in my career.” Long announced that 12,000 people have registered with FEMA for financial aid, and that $3 million has been handed out already.
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This is exactly what we do when our pastures get overgrown, they can clear out low growth in short order. Leave them in too long and they’ll take it to bare ground. Many of the local ranchers have been bringing in exotic strains (They grow large horns) and get a double bonus from their presence. Hunters will pay good money for rams and billy’s with a good set of horns. They’ll open the country up and this allows for more grass and forbs for the grazing animals such as cows.
Start at minute 1:17. What are those three blue lights? I have no idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOowT1v1eS0
“When the fire started, it was calm.”
No, it was not. The winds were howling.
Yeah, you’re probably right ... too early also. I guess the “thin forests” part of the headline just got me to thinking about that song lyric re “paradise”.
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