Budget. Reporter consumed over 1 million acres in california. Caused billions of dollars of damage and put pressure on 1. 8 billion budget. Approaching half the agency as entire budget halfway through the fiscal year. 275 million more than cal fire set aside as emergency fund. We always watch budget closely. Be fiscally responsible. But its clear in the climate were living in, we have to have the resources to battle the fires. Stay focused and be able to respond to changing environment were experiencing in california. Reporter says its working closely will the department of finance and legislature to keep Funds Available for fire lines to be staffed. On track for new record. Compared to past three budget years. Complicating the process is how the fire season, compared to four years ago, is running longer. Fire seasons today on average 75 days longer than they were. We have to change our mindset. One of the reasons weve invested additional money in staffing yearround and work we do ahea
Season isnt. Rolling into 2018 now as fires are still burning right now. Im dan ashley. Im dion lim in for ama daetz. This is unusual year. 2017, cal fire battled more than 7,000 fires. Thats correct fire. About 50 more than last year, pretty average year. Burned more than twice as many acres. Biggest fire in modern state history, thomas fire, still burning. 91 contained and not expected to grow any more. Destroyed more than 1,000 buildings in little over three weeks. And we can never forget north bay wildfires. Late sunday night in october, merged into six massive fires, killing 43 people in napa, sonoma, lake and mendocino counties. Took 23 days to fully contain and fire season isnt over. Reporter david louis shows you what the cal fire is doing now and what its doing to budget. Reporter consumed over 1 million acres in california. Caused billions of dollars of damage and put pressure on 1. 8 billion budget. Approaching half the agency as entire budget halfway through the fiscal year
The storm system irtself is a couple hundred miles offshore. Clouds in place for much of the day. We have a couple of returns on live doppler 7 but the atmosphere still so dry that this is evaporating weave before it reaches the surface. Our storm system out to sea a couple hundred miles away from us. It is moving in our direction, and it will bring us our next chance of rain. Future weather, when do we expect rain . Tomorrow morning, 11 00 a. M. , thats when we expect that storm system close enough moving onshore that youll begin to see some drops reach the ground. With this storm system we do have a chance of seeing a thundershower. The Storm Prediction Center which monitors the entire u. S. For a chance of a thundershower is placing the region under an isolated chance any shower that does poppive could have lightning and hail. Well time out the storm system in a few minutes. People in san jose are still rebuilding from last years devastating floods and theyre not happy to see severa
But much stronger in Southern California where there was heavier rain and stronger wind than here. Some of the heaviest in Santa Barbara county which received 3 to 6 inches of rainfall. There were deadly debris flows in montecito. Let me give you a look at montecito. More than half an inch of rain resulting in the fatal debris flow. In ventura county, a portion of shutdown of highway 101. Dead dead drew tuma has more of that. Its not only the amount of rain, its also the intensity of the rain falling that can cause issues. We got soaked here the past 36 hours. Finally, it was a slow start to the rainy season. But totals across the region. Some of the hardest hit spots. 3. 47 inches in San Francisco. The south bay, you are not out of the woods with this storm. You saw 2 inches of rain. Where do we take a look at the percent of normal and where we stand for the rainy season so far to date . You can see the heaviest rainfall, look at that, in Southern California. Were talking about the pe
Caused by rains. Its caused 13 deaths and theyre looking for 24 people still missing. This is montecito in Santa Barbara county where the thomas fire burned last month. Its a neighborhood swamped in mud with a flow so powerful it ripped apart some homes. It inundated highway 101, completely shutting it down. Mud and floodwaters buried roads in Los Angeles County as well. The mudslide comes out of nowhere. Out of the bushes here. Pushes me over three to four feet. Many were taken by surprise at the ferocity. In areas near l. A. And burbank. Across the storm battered area at least 50 people have been rescued by air and dozens more on the ground. Emergency responders called this the worst Case Scenario following last months wildfires. We have Team Coverage of the effects of the weather in Southern California and in the bay area. Drew tuma is adding up how much rain weve received. But first a check in with Spencer Christian who is tracking the system across the state. Spencer . It was a st