What is the toll? California’s worsening wildfires, explained

April 1, 2019 by maitreyi.karthik@climate-connect.com

(Source: Enterprise-Record) The state has spent, conservatively, more than $4.7 billion from its emergency fund in the last 10 years to fight fires. Cal Fire, the state’s firefighting agency, has been chewing through its firefighting budget only months into a year, leaving little to pay for thinning California’s overgrown forests and helping rural communities protect their infrastructure and water supplies. Read full article….