"The president of the United Farm Workers of America said the group received calls from workers who said they weren't getting N95 masks and couldn't breathe because of the smoke. “That’s not the case.”Before wildfire season, state regulators approved the safety and prevention programs submitted by California’s major investor-owned utilities.The three big power companies — Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric — included intentional blackouts as part of their strategies to prevent wildfires caused by their equipment.So it was no surprise that PG&E, already in bankruptcy after amassing tens of billions of dollars in wildfire liability because its equipment caused two dozen blazes in recent years, turned off its customers’ electricity as wind gusts as high as 102 miles per hour blew through Northern California.
Ramos claims that her throat began hurting after ingesting all of the smoke, and said she only had a cloth bandana wrapped around her nose and mouth.Norm Groot, the executive director of the Monterey County Farm Bureau, said employers quickly tried to secure masks for their employees when the fires broke out. Get the latest breaking news delivered straight to your inbox.Copyright © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved.
She had called her son to say she was evacuating.“She said she’s getting her purse and she’s getting out, and the line went dead,” Don Turner said.He said neighbors saw his mother in her garage as flames approached. Edison also limited its intentional blackouts, though its equipment also is suspected as the cause of at least two Southern California fires.The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, has been a steadfast critic of President Trump and rarely misses an opportunity to joust with the White House on everything from climate change to gun control to immigration.But as the wildfires burned, Mr. Newsom praised the Trump administration for making federal funds available to fight several fires, including the Getty, Tick, Kincade and Easy fires.“His team is performing above and beyond expectation,” Mr. Newsom said last week, according to Politico.
It was the second mass blackout in two weeks, angering the governor, lawmakers and residents who were left groping in the dark — many for almost a week.Despite PG&E’s widespread blackout strategy, it appears that it did not completely prevent the utility’s equipment from sparking wildfires. CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROTECTION, CALFIRE, CAL FIRE. It spread west through tinder-dry brush in hilly subdivisions on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest city, and was only 13% contained on Friday night.A middle-aged man who was near the fire went into cardiac arrest and died after apparently trying to fight the fire himself, authorities said.The Los Angeles fire chief, Ralph M Terrazas, said he flew over the fire and saw “hundreds, if not thousands of homes” with charred backyards where firefighters had just managed to halt the flames.Fire swept down the hill across the street, Bernard said, and spat embers over his home of 30 years, sizzling dry grass and igniting trees and bushes.
And even frequent critics, like Mr. Whalen, have given him high marks.“The first thing that any politician in California has to realize is that there are two sets of people you have to gravitate to,” said Mr. Whalen, who is a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. “One is the first responders, the other is the victims. More than 600,000 acres had burned by the same time last year, according to Cal Fire. "If you put a worker in any other industry to work under those conditions, the workers would not put up with it," she said. "We were quite afraid and stressed because of the virus, but now it is not just the virus — it's also the smoke and the heat," she said. As of December 22, 2019 , over 7,860 fires have been recorded according to Cal Fire and the US Forest Service, totaling an estimated of 259,823 acres (105,147 hectares) of burned land. Captain Imbrenda cautioned that the fire season is long and could become more deadly.“We don’t want people to be lulled into a sense of complacency that we have some ability this year that we didn’t last year,” he said. "We feel trapped especially because we're parents who have to work and we are afraid of the virus and someone possibly being sick and us getting infected," she said. Jacobsen added that due to the heat in the valley, where temperatures have recently reached up to 110 degrees, some accommodations have been made to allow farmworkers to begin earlier in the day.
And while the most recent spate of major wildfires has subsided, there's no guarantee air quality will improve soon.Laura Molinari is a senior manager of social media at CBS News.Be in the know. The River Fire, which started on August 16, scorched 48,088 acres, and the Carmel Fire, which started two days later, scorched 6,905 acres, according to Cal Fire.
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