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NSPR’s Alec Stutson spoke with Dixie Fire Public Information Officer Edwin Zuniga on Tuesday about the weather conditions on the fire front. Here are the highlights from their conversation.
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The Butte County District Attorney’s Office says it reinstituted its “PG&E investigative team” July 13 after learning the utility’s equipment may have contributed to starting the Dixie Fire.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom dramatically overstated the amount of fire prevention work performed on “priority projects” he touted and cut Cal Fire’s mitigation budget by $150 million last year, an investigation by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom found.
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PG&E has reached a settlement with ten public entities affected by wildfires found to be caused by the company, including the Zogg Fire.
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California wildfires have burned nearly five times as many acres on state land this year compared to the same time period last year.
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So far this year, California has seen 1,812 fires that charred nearly 9,400 acres — a massive uptick from the 1,159 fires that burned nearly 1,700 acres during the same time period last year, according to state data. That increase is even more sobering when one considers that last year’s fire season rewrote the record books.
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The difference between a Fire Weather Watch and Red Flag Warning mainly has to do with how well the National Weather Service knows the timing of the critical fire weather conditions that are predicted to occur.
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Much of the Central Valley stretching from Redding to Modesto will be under a red flag warning this weekend as dry, windy conditions increase the risk of wildfires.
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Cal Fire Director Thom Porter says there’s every reason to believe that this year could be as bad as last year. Porter is urging people to clear 100 feet of defensible space around their homes, harden their structures and form an evacuation plan.
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This week is Wildfire Preparedness Week in California and one important way to get prepared is to create defensible space around your home by clearing tree limbs, brush and grass. But once the work is done, what do you do with all that vegetation that’s been cleared? NSPR’s Sarah Bohannon tells us about a program in Plumas County that’s helping residents with just that.