The district announced that it will be issuing an air quality advisory through Wednesday. The advisory urges residents to protect themselves by staying indoors and ensuring their windows and doors are closed, the statement said.
Hurricanes, flooding, and other natural disasters have taken their toll on state economies. To quantify just how much, Stacker used data compiled by the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) to evaluate the economic impact of the most expensive weather-related disasters in U.S. history on each of the fifty states.
While California is experiencing a record drought, driven in part by climate change, the initial spark for many wildfires often comes from utility equipment and power lines. And fire investigators are now looking into whether the utility company PG&E was behind the nation's largest fire so far this year. KQED's Lily Jamali reports.
Revisiting 2020: The West Coast wildfires, the woman helping to rebuild her community
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2020 ends with so many communities in the West looking for a place to begin to rebound after historic wildfires destroyed towns.
Virginia Camberos home survived the fires that destroyed the towns of Talent and Phoenix in southern Oregon in September. She is an advocate with Unite Oregon and is working with many members of the Latino community who lost everything to the flames. Iâll tell you that our community is still in dire straits. The fact that they donât have a home. The holidays are upon us and we have just helped as many folks as we can giving out $500 gift cards to help them alleviate the struggle of getting shoes for their children, food, all the hygienic supplies that they need, Virginia said.