California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) said during an interview with CNN that those who lost their homes in the state’s fires “can’t rebuild the same.”
“You can’t rebuild the same. So we have to rebuild with science. We have to build with climate reality in mind. We have to look at infrastructure, redundancy systems, ingress, egress, as it relates to emergency management and planning, materials,” he said.
“All of that is being reviewed and reconsidered with the latest iterations in terms of understanding and technology. And I say technology in the context of how, again, we build the infrastructure to keep it safe, to address undergrounding of lines, how we address the larger issues of redundancy in terms of systems.”
“Concurrently, people are getting permits. So this is all happening, rolling together. And we want to see construction very shortly. And in the next few years, we want to see hundreds, thousands of homes rebuilt,” Newsom added.
Newsom recently launched “LA Rises,” an initiative aimed at accelerating recovery and rebuilding efforts.
“Los Angeles will rise again — stronger, more united, and more resilient than ever,” Gov. Newsom stated in his announcement. “Just as California came together to fight the fires, we’ll work together to rebuild.”
The California governor is also facing a recall effort. The coalition Saving California, founded by Randy Economy, a senior advisor and media spokesperson of the 2021 recall effort against the governor, plans to launch a new recall campaign against Newsom.
“Under the reign of Governor Newsom, living in California has become impossible for average people through years of poor policies which have increased the costs of living, increased crime, increased drug use and homelessness, increased the cost of burden on small businesses and communities, while decreasing our professional standards, education standards, the disappearance of billions of taxpayers’ dollars to failed pet programs, and our public services,” Economy said in a statement.
“This was most recently demonstrated by the woefully unprepared and incompetent response to the fires currently ravaging the Los Angeles area. Just today, Governor Newsom was asked, ‘What is your plan to deal with the lack of water to deal with the fires?’ and he responded by saying ‘local folks are gonna figure it out.’ That’s not leadership!” he declared.
