Congress must continue to fund these critical strategies to fight and prevent wildfires

Opinion

Northern Californians watched the Los Angeles-area fires in sympathetic horror, knowing all too well the devastation brought by these disasters. The Camp Fire in November 2018 took almost everything from so many in Butte County, and it’s unbearable to see others experience the same devastating losses.

Wildfires are often viewed as a Northern California issue: the Park Fire last July — the fourth largest fire in California’s history — burned in the same counties as the infamous Camp, North Complex and Dixie fires. Northern California also battled the CZU Lightening Complex, August Complex, Valley, Tubbs and Caldor wildfires. When we say we have great empathy for our neighbors in Southern California, we truly mean it.

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