‘We have to do better as a country’: Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris visited her home state of California to assess an area devastated by historic wildfires raging across the state
Firefighters keep a lookout through smoke while defending the Mount Wilson observatory from the Bobcat Fire in Los Angeles, California, U.S., September 16, 2020. REUTERS/Patrick T. Fallon
“I was telling people yesterday that the defense of the Mount Wilson observatory was taking on the feel of a mini-Alamo,” John Clearwater, public affairs officer for Angeles National Forest, told Reuters. The West Coast wildfires, which officials and scientists have described as unprecedented in scope and ferocity, have filled the region’s skies with smoke and soot, compounding a public health crisis already posed by the coronavirus pandemic.Scientists tracked the smoke as far away as Europe. The European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service is monitoring the scale and intensity of the fires and the transport of their smoke across the United States and beyond.
Pettner has been helping beat back the state’s largest wildfire this season - the Beachie Creek Fire, also known as the Santiam Fire. As a local, she said the loss hits on a personal level.“Places that we would take our children camping or go and visit, we’ve seen those altered permanently... we won’t see those places look the same probably in my lifetime,” Pettner said.
In California, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said on Wednesday that 17,000 firefighters were still battling 25 major fires, and the state’s death toll stood at 25.
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