As over 370 active wildfires raged across California and authorities reported at least six fatalities, President Donald Trump criticized Californian officials for failing to take action to reduce fuel loads across the state.
“I see again the forest fires are starting, it’s starting again in California,” Trump said at a press conference in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Thursday. “I said you’ve got to clean your floors, you’ve got to clean your forests. They have many, many years of leaves and broken trees and they’re ... so flammable: you touch them and it goes up. I’ve been telling them this now for three years, but they don’t want to listen.”
