EDITORIAL: California is burning, and Trump it tweeting
We try to ignore these social media outbursts, but
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He wasn't finished.
On Monday, Trump tweeted again: "Governor
There's a lot here to sort through, including Trump's failure to say anything about the nine people who lost their lives in the ongoing fires or the hundreds who have been left homeless.
But let's start with his suggestion that firefighters are being stymied by a lack of water.
To sum up
"We are not having any issues accessing any water supplies. We have plenty,"
Firefighters battling the
Water is just one tool in wildland firefights, where a primary objective is containment. Hand crews and bulldozers build lines by clearing brush and trees, sometimes setting backfires to remove combustible material. When weather conditions allow, aircraft dump fire retardant in the path of the flames.
The president says climate change is a hoax, but that's another Twitterstorm for another day.
Trump's references to "bad environmental laws" and rivers being "diverted" into the
Forestry experts agree with one aspect of Trump's wildfire tweets, his "tree clear" reference to thinning forests and clearing underbrush to reduce the risk of wildfires.
Trump has declared a major disaster in
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