It's been an apocalyptic few days, even by California standards.
“We are experiencing fires, the likes of which we haven’t seen in many, many years,” Gov. Gavin Newsom told Californians during a press conference Wednesday.
“This fire season has been very active and, not surprisingly, that activity has taken shape in a number of counties up and down the state,” Newsom said. But Newsom expressed confidence that the state was prepared to rise to the challenge and thanked the leaders of other states for their pledges to send additional resources. Still, when he invoked a saying that’sto even casual viewers of his coronavirus briefings — reminding Californians that we’re more than capable of “doing everything we can to meet the moment” — it was difficult not to think of just how much more complicated the moment in question has become.
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