Conditions in California have changed

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While California always had wildfires, it is the conditions on the ground that have changed and now provide the ideal ground for wildfires to spread, California State Legislature Assembly Member Bill Essayli says.   #California #CaliforniaWildfires

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00:00Yeah, and we've been speaking to experts on this channel as well, who say that the situations

00:06we're going to be seeing more and more of these kinds of wildfire in the future.

00:10And he says that's the result of global warming and climate change.

00:13Is that something that people are talking about there?

00:15You know, it's very difficult to attribute how much of it is for climate change.

00:20What we can tell you is we've always had wildfires in California.

00:23It's nothing new.

00:24What's new, what's different are the conditions on the ground.

00:27California, we used to manage our lands.

00:29We used to go in and take the dead trees out of the forest.

00:31How we used to let the lumber companies go in and thin the forest.

00:35We used to do controlled burns.

00:36We would burn the brush, we would burn hillsides in the safe seasons.

00:40So that way, when these conditions came, there would be big fire breaks or there wouldn't

00:43be as much fuel on these lands to burn as quickly.

00:47We used to have better infrastructure and we used to have water in our reservoirs.

00:50The firefighters didn't have water in the fire hydrants to fight the fires.

00:55So none of what I mentioned is attributed to climate change.

00:58It's all man-caused disasters, particularly we're very critical here because California

01:04has been under the control of the Democrat Party for like the last 20 years.

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