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California Begins Historic Wildfire Cleanup Efforts

The Camp, Woolsey and Hill fires that devastated three counties in California a month ago are estimated to leave five to seven times more fire-related debris than the 2017 wildfires—which generated around 2.2 million tons of debris. Those were the projections made by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Regional Administrator Bob Fenton during a media call on Tuesday.

“Last year, during the fires in Sonoma County, we indicated the debris in that event was the largest amount we had seen in modern time in the state of California—actually since the 1906 earthquake,” explained Mark Ghilarducci, director of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, during the December 11 call. “Unfortunately, this event will be orders of magnitude more than that and now the new record for the largest debris operation that we’ve embarked on.”

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