Spencer Cox: “The Idaho border is as dry as St. George usually is in…”

“Thousands of homes that were not part of the urban interface, the wildland interface, gone because of the right conditions at the wrong time. That's what we are facing here. And it is not just southern Utah. The Idaho border is as dry as St. George usually is in August. That's the kind of thing that we're dealing with. This is unprecedented, and it means that we have to take some unprecedented measures.” (18:00–18:05)

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