Returns. The Manhattan Das Office subpoenaed eight years of personal and Corporate Tax returns as part of the investigation into hush money payments made to two women during the 2016 president ial campaign. President trump fired off a series of tweets in response this morning saying in part, its all a political prosecution. I won the mueller witch hunt and now i have to keep fighting in a politically corrupt new york. Not fair to this presidency or administration. Whatever it is, its not good news for the president of the united states. It seems to me that new York District attorney and others that have tried seem more political than anything else. President trumps lawyer thepresident is immune from criminal prosecution while in office. Both votes, the justices split and Kamala Harris tweeted saying a major win, no one should be above the law including the president of the united states. As far as tax returns becoming public, people would like to see them. Its not going to happen any time soon and they were subpoenaed as part of a grand jury confident investigation. Im Anne Mack Vic at the news desk. Back to results in a tweet a few minutes ago. The mayor says shell have another test in about a week and as a precaution will limit her Public Events for the next ten days and will wear a Face Covering and practice social distancing it. Her office said she came into contact with someone with the virus re back to the wild fire season in california amid the pandemic. Lets listen in. Brand new black hawk helicopter procured recently by cal fire. Were very pleased to have this new equipment but its demonstrable to have an upgrade for a Delivery System and our capacity to mitigate, prevent, and suppress wild fires here in the state of california. I dont need to remind anybody that lives in the state of california of the wild fire season getting extended and i dont need to remind anybody that was impacted districtly or indirectly by the 628 fires we had last week here in the statei weve had to date through january of this year through july 5, some 4, 512 wild fires and that represents a significant increase over last year. In fact, last year there were 2, 580 fi4, 112, 2, 580 is the average that we experience on an annual basis. The good news despite the significant increase in the total number of fires weve experienced to date is that the sighs of the fires have been contained. Substantivally so. In fact, average now these wild fires 6. 6acres and we have a goal to get to 95 suppression r cres ceedinat and a consequence, weve experienced substantially above average number of wild fires we have experienced a reduction in the average number of acres burned. Its compared to historic averages. Thats testament and thats testament to the talents that resided here today behind the camera. In a moment, chief porter and the questions that are responsible for keeping us safe and responsible for organizing a construct with cal fire. Thats second to none in this country. I would argue its about as professional as it gets. Anywhere in our country and now its better equipped than ever. More equipment represents more time saved, more value to suppression. These black hawk helicopters represented 285 million procurement of some helicopters that were bringing into our fleet over the next few years. But what they also represent is the capacity to roughly double their suppression capacity to have the capacity to move faster with more personnel, not just with more suppression capacity and also a safety component with a second engine that allows these black hawks to be even more essential at a time when we have got to focus on the safety of our front line heros. Accordingly, we have the capacity in whats the well be able to get th lis ro suppion during the ening helicopters, the ones from vietnam era, helicopters from the past that did none of the above. Anyway, im just encouraged by the fact that were seeing these procurement now come into place under the banner of cal fire. Also encourage that had we were able to successfully pass a budget despite a very difficult budget short fall. We had to balance and still able to make investments not just the 285 million for the black hawks that i referenced communication equipment, made investments on new cameras, over 5 million for 108 wild fire cameras which are incredibly important and add venn teenagous being able to identify new fires and is fires where we referred to invasion sprint from new technologies and one of those ive highlighted in the past deserves to behighlighted again, which does something incredible. We talk about modeling relating to covid19. Techno does some incredible wild fire modeling that really helps advantage some of our planning and ut caia. Ves ma despite the constraints of very difficult budget here. One of the more important investments we made was an 85. 6 Million Investment to provide a new permanent work force for cal fire. Were adding additional 172 members, fulltime equipment staff to our team that is a significant increase and baseline support for cal fire again and difficult budget season that was not necey was n anticipated to be accomplished because of the leadership of the legislature and we want to think about the Senate Leaders as well as the Assembly Leaders for supporting these budgets and advancing the collective cause. They want to keep us safe. With additional permanent staff and resources you see mind me in terms of equipment and tactics based on new technologies we procured, we believe despite the fact weve seen an increase with a very dry winter, an increase in the total number of fires that the team here, chief porter, leadership, the entire office of Emergency Services is up to ry ask, but all that the fact that just in the last ten years five of the most destructive wild fire seasons we have incurred. I dont need to remind you where we were 24 months ago and last year even though it was a below average year in terms of wild fires, didnt feel like that for people in Southern California or in northern california, some of those directly impacted by the ravages of some manmade disasters and also mother nature. I wont be sheepish or shy, the hots are getting hotter and the dries are getting drier and the wets are getting wetter. You may call that Climate Change and may call that global warming, but one thing we know is our approach to dealing with wild fires has to change and adapt with a climate thats changing and adapting quic first, i want to mention a couple other things before i bring up tom porter, our chief and that is a little bit of an update on pg and e. They play a roll in this and goes without saying and none much us are sheepish or shy and or condemnation and critique with the largest facility and pg and e going into bankruptcy and people may not be aware theyre out of bankruptcy. Well be able to accomplish that and ill be able to accomplish that before july 16789 theyre coming out a new company and new expectation and ultimately new accountability and responsibility and if they dont perform, the state of california can intervene in ways weve never been able to with a private utility in the past. Its important to know a part of the emergence from bankruptcy, pg and e are required to do thingsthe past theyve never been required to do. On vegetation and updating and modernizing their grid. Their infrastructure on sectionalizing parts of the grid so they can be more precise in terms of when they turn off. How quickly they can turn on that power on whether monitoring stations. Evening capacity and back up into procuring the personnel that ive acquired for wild fire safety division. Theres a new wild Fire Safety Group made up of experts and its got its own monitor of pg and e and theres a 5 million obligation they have in hardening their infrastructure undergrounding their wires and that does not come with an attachment and those watching dont have to pay the cost associated with the return on the investment 1 of the ious and theres a frame work of engagement with a new board of directors, 11 of the 14 members of the pg and e board have been replaced with a new board and d skill sets and different obligations and a moment ago on the pg and e front we also have a new capacity because of leadership of, well, jerry hill among many others er orbill allows us to take pg and e over and we have graduated sanctions and oversight and capacity to break glass what we referred to as plan b if they simply are not doing their job. So we are about safe, reliable, and affordable service, more oversight, more accountability, more capacity to deliver. Im not going to promise however just on the pg and e front that everything is ing to us decathat theyve d deinnkruptcy for thsecond tim and the last decade plus and none of us are naive and they need to accomplish moving forward and weve never had a criteria and weve never had conditions set and weve never been able to bracket our expectations and have real oversight and accountability than we do today and so lets work through this year and hold that company accountable. With new energy, new focus, and new leadership work over the next few years to continue to double down on these investments both from the utility side and broadest office of Emergency Service to get california to the place where you deserve it to be even as we address the issues of Climate Change. Thats the frame work to which i wanted to begin my presentation here today. I of course will be doing an update on covid19 but theres a covid19 connection to the announcements were making here today as well. Im going to ask not only tom porter, chief of cal fire to come up and talk a little bit about how hes preparing for wild fire season, but i also talk to director and weve got to keep them safe and environments covid19 free and weve got criteria and a lot of changes with cal fire and in terms of Fire Suppression strategies and the protective gear to get socially distancing and even fighting fires and were getting briefing that is not all cohorted together to make sure that meals are served in a way where we can isolate any considerern as it relates to spread of covid19. Lot of new protocols both from Fire Fighting and evacuation perspective and how we dot processing of protocols into our shelters working with our partners red cross and others, doing temperature checks. Making sure again that we as. Theyve all right utilized based on existing wild fires since january and improverring upon our efforts as we it rate in this very different environment that we with that, porter to come up, chief porter i want to acknowledge the high priority to identify the impact and communities that didnt necessarily have the resources that many others have around trailer parks or people have access to vehicles where they can move quickly or dont have other resources we prioritize those individuals as part of this 35 cohort. I just want to thank tom for delivering on that last project, which was up there near highway 17 around santa cruz family. That was a stubborn one. Thank you, governor, and thank you for all the recognition. It goes without saying that the troops on the ground are the ones that really make this all happen. Every single day putting the fires out and keeping them small as the governor meioned. So i wanted to start out with kind of what were looking at. We are now at the point of turning the corner. We are in peak, we are in peak fire season. Theyre going to start burning into the forest and this e time of year where fires get bigger and more difficult to control. The resources and cal fire hawk and three getting crews filled out and deployed to the field and the rest that are coming online in the next months and years and what that means well be able to meofthe time keeping fires 10acres ofr partners to ensure that that is. Looking to on go and maintain an effort undertaken last year. We need you also to be vigilant. Identify fires early, call them in. The cameras work great but sometimes the phone is faster. Call in fires, note suspicious activity. Just in this ar, just 2020, we have already arrested, this is only cal fire. Law enforcement already arrested 45 arsonists, 45 just in the seven month period that were currently in for this year. That is because of tips that come from you, the public. The need to ion an as start to respond to fires and there are evacuatons, theres already been evacuations here and there on some of the smaller fires that weve had thus far. Public is starting to see how those e going will give more detail about that. We need you as the public to wear your mask. Your mask is whats going to keep you safe from infections coming into your community as well as keep our Fire Fighters and Emergency Responders safe from taking infection out into their population. We really need you to wear the mask. Were all wears macks here today and that is my expectation that my Fire Fighters are doing the same and that you the public are helping with that messaging. We will continue to commit to aggressive initial atta is thpo we can reduce the impact to wild land fire to the greatest extent. If we can keep fires small, well do everything in our power to keep it going along. Itll save budget as well. What youll hear is me calling for now painting small fires and we need to put as much targeted on the ground as quickly as possible in order to keep fires small. Retardant keeping fires small by the time we get fire crus in and cut line around. That is absolutely important and it needs to happen on every single fire, regardless of jurisdiction. We will make it happen. We have the air fleet to do so. Our Mutual Aid Partnership is something we aspire to. Theres no capabilities brought together of our community of local government, federal government, and State Government working together seemlessly to keep fires small but when they get big to wrap around and make sure that the fires taken care of as well as thank you. Thanks, tom. Just kind of building on chief porters comment talking about ilrespond to wito wild nd our fires in this particular year with covid19, a little bit more complexity, the need to make sure that all of our mutual aid responders, all of our Fire Fighters, and the public are aware of what to do when we may have an evacuation and how were going to do things differently in the event we need to set up emergency shelters but that mutual aid system spans beyond the Fire Fighters and it includes our Law Enforcement and sheriffs and Highway Patrol and Emergency Services at the local level and the american red cross, salvation army. These are all entities that come together to help us through the process of making sure that all of you are kept as safe as possible during these events. This year, when we have a wild fire, you want to be very, very attuned of whats happening in your community. Pay attention to lo author sten to alerts and warnings and if yototo evacuate, evacuate. This is very important. There may be conditions because of resource limitations or we may be wanting this year to move people out of harms way before fire gets to a particular area. So we will be informing you of what those fire conditions are in your area so when you see a red flag warning, when we listen to locaorities about whats happening this your community, if youre told to evacuate this year, we are doing some things a little differently. It may be that we dont put you in a congregate shelter situation. Youve be listening to state fire officials and the governor talk about the states preparedness efforts for the states wild fire season, which were well into right now. Theyre standing in front of a new black hawk helicopter, nofire f them avblt theyre er and theyhold three times more water than the old helicopters. More will be added to the fleet as more personnel to help with the wild fire season, 172 to be exact, Staff Members were added to the staff. 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