Gavin Newsom: “40,000 acres were burned.”

“What did you see? What did you feel? Well, you know, put it in context and you did it in the book in pretty vivid terms. I mean, 40,000 acres were burned. Wasn't just these two major fires that get so much attention, appropriately so because of the devastation and the 31 lives that were lost, but 12 fires over the period of January 7, January 20, 20, 22nd, we were dealing with unprecedented conditions.” (04:20–04:22)

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