SIMI VALLEY, CA - OCTOBER 30: A firefighting helicopter makes a water drop near inmate firefighters battling the Easy Fire on October 30, 2019 near Simi Valley, California.
The National Weather Service issued a rare extreme red flag warning for South BUTTE COUNTY, Calif. - Standing in the center of a burned-out forest in Butte County, California Gov.
Gavin Newsom on Friday gave an impassioned speech about climate change and he paved the way for formerly incarcerated people to become professional firefighters. "There is a climate emergency," he said, with smoke-filled skies from the North Complex Fire as his backdrop. "This is real."He cited the hottest temperature ever recorded in Los Angeles County last weekend at 121 degrees, a.