Weekly Wildfire Update: East Coast Pops Off, Multiple Teams Ordered. Washington State Scraps Wildfire Risk Map. Says the Maps are unreliable, but there's a lot more to this story.


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Mar 23 2024 48 mins   14

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  • Full Operational Update.

  • Virginia and West Virginia order multiple Teams. Multiple Complexes established.

  • Governor puts out an emergency response. Southern Area at PL3.

  • Washington State scraps its Wildfire Risk Maps.

  • Says their unreliable and need to be redone. However, defensible space requirements are thrown out because environmentalists say it removes too many trees.

  • I cover the lobbyists behind this Bill and where it goes from here.

  • State Farm doesn’t renew 70,000+ policies in California.

  • Not guilty plea in Canada’s arson cause that caused the largest fire in Nova Scotia’s history.

  • Plus more.

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