Newsom said he was impressed with the coordination among local, state and federal governments to ensure vulnerable residents in the path of the fire were taken care of. The Democratic governor even called the Trump administration’s response to California’s wildfires “spectacular.”“I have nothing but good things to say about the federal government’s support,” Newsom said. “To see them on cots in temporary shelter, it really hits home the human side of this and the enormity of the task of 180,000 people being evacuated,” Newsom said. Newsom declared a statewide emergency Sunday as wildfires spread throughout California, burning tens of thousands of acres and forcing evacuations of more than 180,000 people. “It’s remarkable we’ve been able to do that given where the Tick fire was going 48 hours ago,” Newsom said.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 28, 2019 01:20 UTC