Actually, I’m sure he’s responsible for this getting out of control.
The horrific scale of death and destruction is coming into focus, even as the wildfires continue to rage throughout Northern California.
Thirty-one confirmed dead, many of them elderly.
Hundreds still missing on Friday.
Thousands of homes and businesses destroyed, including whole neighborhoods reduced to smoldering rubble.
“We all have suffered a trauma here, and we’re going to be a long time in recovering from this incident,” Santa Rosa Mayor Chris Coursey told reporters.
As authorities continue assessing the damage from the most devastating spate of wildfires to strike the state in modern history, the blazes are burning mostly uncontained — with winds likely to return this weekend, breathing dangerous new life into the deadly arc of flames.
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials said Thursday that some 190,000 acres had been scorched across the state — a collective area nearly the size of New York City — as dangerous conditions spread the fires with frightening speed.
Massive wildfires, one major hurricane after another, record temperatures that keep rising every year.
And the GOP still says climate change doesn’t exist. You think maybe the crimson menace should be dealing with this instead of sending his vice presidential toady to walk out of football games?