The California’s department of corrections and rehabilitation (CDCR) says 939 fire camps of firefighters have been working around the clock to stop the ongoing wild fires devastating los angeles the capital of california in the united states of America.
The official from the CDCR told journalist that the fire rages beyond how you can predict.
California has utilized inmates to combat fires for over a century.
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The CDCR says inmates participate in the program voluntarily, and are compensated with between $5.80 to $10.24 per day.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom also said on Friday that firefighters from Mexico were on route to assist in combating the Eaton wildfire. Newsom did not detail how many people Mexico was sending.
Also, southern California has plenty of water stored, said Mark Gold, the water scarcity solutions director at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The local water shortages happened because the city’s infrastructure wasn’t designed to respond to a fire as large as the one that broke out in the Palisades and elsewhere, experts said.
However, president-elect Donald Trump and some social media users and pundits blamed Los Angeles’ deadly fires on California Governor Gavin Newsom, saying the Democrat’s environmental policies enabled the blazes’ danger and wreckage.
As of January 12, authorities counted at least 16 people dead, more than 14,000 hectares (35,000 acres) burned and thousands of structures damaged or destroyed.