Newsom Lays Out $2 Billion Budget for Wildfire Season

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to spend a record amount of money on battling and preventing wildfires. Melissa Colorado reports.

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[rgwak]

$2 billion seems a bit low if we're going to stop those SPACE LASERS!! 😜

[jamesjones]

"Only you can prevent forest fires."
Smokey The Bear

[jenksify]

Wow, if they were to put all that money into forest management to clean up all the underbrush there would be much less fuel for the fires. Proper prevention prevents forest fires.

[mandywhorwal]

Gavin Newsom for prison. Vote Meet Kevin.

[huntcon]

Gavin must have a bunch a real estate in fire prone areas in California.

[boreddude]

for all the people asking for "forest management", our forests are literally federal land

[SH-knut]

California has an ancient history of prolonged dry periods - going back MILLIONS of years. Climate change is not the problem. Corruption and incompetence is the problem.

[ponrix]

Get a recall going and now he wants to start doing his job after 2 yrs. Why not spend it on clearing deas brush instead of new shiny planes.

[atheistalways]

gavin would not have to spend so much if they would just do forest management instead of having overgrown trees in a drought stricken state...but that's why its California

[calliedaly]

Or you could drop $2B into water conservancy and getting PGE to upgrade their lines and get to forest clearing.

[jcjp]

alll Newsome knows. How much for him Piglosi???

[ryanking]

Newsom won't be recalled cause the msm will push hes just too awesome also I'm gay

[grymjaw]

Gavin Newsom is quite possibly the best governor in the history of the US. Come at me trolls

[hayabusa]

Gavin has been real busy lately whats going on

[AmericanAntiCorruptionAct]

62% of Americans say a 3rd Party is needed!

Source: Gallup

[racerx]

yall still dealin with newsom? im sorry. next time vote Republican, and watch your state dramatically improve

[michellet]

We need to do what we can, we got 2 seconds of rain this winter. Its so dry it looks like the END of summer already.

[Noobgaming]

pretry good since im heading into the wildland fire service soon

[richardfrias]

2 b is more then enough to do something, Right CA. Ppl?

[izekealtopanga]

California forests is managed majority by federal government BLM through the USFS. 60% is federal only 2% is state owned. The rest is privately owned by private or commercial based.