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California must be ‘fire-proofed’
AlArabiya English
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1/15/2025
California has to invest more money into fire prevention and upgrade its infrastructure to prevent future fires, California State Legislature Assembly Member Bill Essayli says.
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Yeah, you've been calling for your state to be fireproofed. I'm just wondering whether you can
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tell our viewers what it means to fireproof California. Yeah, so it's a change of two things.
00:10
One is what we spend our money on, and two, our policies. So, for example, in 2021, we spent $1
00:18
billion on fireproofing, or I'm sorry, fire prevention. That's thinning brush and things
00:24
like that. We now only spend $200 million. So there's been an 80% reduction in the budget on
00:29
just basic things like fire prevention. We need to be investing a lot more than that, probably
00:34
several billion dollars a year. We need to upgrade our infrastructure, not only our water
00:40
infrastructure, but also our power lines. So you have to, California has been around a long time.
00:45
We have power lines that are over a hundred years old that have not been updated or maintained.
00:50
And sometimes a lot of these fires get started when the wind blows these power lines down,
00:54
and they start a lot of the fires. So we need to upgrade our infrastructure,
00:57
our water infrastructure, our power lines need to be undergrounded or upgraded. We need to change
01:03
our rules so we can get back to thinning the forests or doing these prescribed burns, lowering
01:08
the fuel load. There's a lot of things we can be doing as a government that we're just not doing
01:12
right now.
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