With reservoirs full and snow still deep across the Sierra Nevada following one of the wettest winters in recent decades, California is off to a slow start this year to fire season.
But Gov. Gavin Newsom and state fire leaders urged residents on Thursday not to be complacent as July Fourth nears and summer weather begins to heat up.
“In the last four years we’ve had two of the most extreme wildfire seasons — some of the worst and most destructive in terms of acreage and property and lives lost — and then two of the more modest fire seasons,” Newsom said during a visit to the Cal Fire Air Attack Base in Grass Valley, California.
