China News Service, April 9th. According to the US "World Journal" report, California Governor Newsom and state legislators stated on the 8th that California will approve US$536 million for forest management plans and is committed to the 2021 wildfire season. Before the attack, reduce the occurrence of wildfires.
Data map: On April 5th, local time, a fire broke out in a national forest in Wayemo, California, USA.
The picture shows an airplane spraying fire extinguishing agent.
According to reports, the proponents said that this funding has more than doubled over the US$200 million in annual wildfire prevention and control funding in recent years.
Previously, in 2020, the wildfire reserve fund was reduced because it was prematurely expected that the new crown epidemic might lead to a shortage of funds.
At present, legislators plan to add the budget surplus to the 2021 fiscal year budget, and even consider adding more California wildfire prevention funds before the new expenditure budget takes effect on July 1.
Newsom said that legislative leaders hope to be more active in the prevention and control work. The US$1 billion that was originally planned to be spent in the second half of the year will be used immediately to promote various prevention and control plans and prepare for the coming wildfire season.
In January 2021, Newsom proposed to spend US$323 million on forestry health and wildfire prevention programs this spring.
Related personnel actively plan to carry out planned incineration before the dry winter turns into a dry and hot summer.
The 2020 wildfire season burned a record over 4% of California’s land, destroyed nearly 10,500 buildings and killed 33 people.
According to reports, in early April 2021, the governor used emergency powers to authorize nearly $81 million in funding and hired nearly 1,400 firefighters.
He said that fire protection preparations and various plans are California’s long-term efforts to cope with increasingly serious wildfires and arid climate changes.
Legislators said on the 8th that the latest wildfire prevention plan funds have also expanded the governor’s January funding proposal, including short-term and long-term expenditures on managing public and private land and vegetation, clearing the space around houses, as well as fire protection subsidies and Fire training, etc.; it also includes funding for a US$25 million economic relief program for the hard-hit forestry economy.
The state assembly pointed out that the hill fire prevention plan also includes the adoption of prevention and control measures in all types of sites prone to hill fire areas and vegetation to protect areas with more residents.
Newsom said that the new proposal will be discussed in the California House of Representatives and Senate Appropriations Bill agenda as early as the 12th. If the agreement is passed, the governor will sign it into law on the 13th.