Gavin Newsom: “I've doubled the budget in terms of the state fire…”

“In a state that has the largest civilian fleet of aircraft for fire suppression anywhere in the world, in a state where I've doubled the budget in terms of the state fire investments and 10x the investments in forest management and vegetation management. And yet still we lost 16,000 structures, homes and buildings because we had a fire that was attached to 100 mile an hour winds in the middle of winter in Southern California.” (06:41–06:50)

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