![]() ![]() To have a healthy forest, diseased trees and underbrush need to be cleared so new growth can occur. Healthy forests are an ecosystem of growth, death, and composition. One of the largest problems with the package is that it promises to restore healthy forests and lands, but decades of mismanagement have created this colossal issue. This is not a problem Newsom's $536 million dollar package can solve. Since the early 2000s, the wildfires have gotten hotter and stronger and have burned with a deeper intensity. After four hours, the entire town was reduced to smoldering ash. ![]() ![]() Others in the town were stuck on a bus or trapped under fire retardant blankets at a gas station. It was the grace of God that a neighbor told her to evacuate. My grandma was babysitting her grandchildren while the parents were at work. It was in this fire that my family nearly died. It’s become the deadliest fire in California’s history. The 2018 Paradise Fire, also known as the Camp Fire, destroyed 11,000 homes, damaged an area the size of Chicago, and killed 85 people. Gavin Newsom signed a $536 million dollar package to “take urgent action, build reliance in communities and help forest health.” But, like most government packages, it misses the mark. ![]()
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