{"id":69848,"date":"2018-11-09T09:34:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T17:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=69848"},"modified":"2018-11-09T09:34:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T17:34:56","slug":"acting-governor-newsom-requests-presidential-emergency-declaration-for-direct-federal-assistance-for-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=69848","title":{"rendered":"Acting Governor Newsom Requests Presidential Emergency Declaration for Direct Federal Assistance for Wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;Acting Governor Gavin Newsom today sent a letter to the President and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requesting a Presidential Emergency Declaration for Direct Federal Assistance to support the communities impacted by wildfires burning across the state, including the Camp Fire in Butte County, the\u00a0Hill and Woolsey fires in Ventura County, the Nurse Fire in Solano County and fires in several other counties, including Lassen and Mendocino.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-69849\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ltgnoflash.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ltgnoflash.png 936w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ltgnoflash-300x91.png 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ltgnoflash-768x234.png 768w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ltgnoflash-570x174.png 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ltgnoflash-701x213.png 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese statewide weather conditions are predicted to remain in California for several days,\u201d said Acting Governor Newsom in the letter. \u201cAs such, these fires will continue to grow and pose further threat to the health and safety of residents throughout California.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Acting Governor Newsom issued an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2018\/11\/08\/acting-governor-newsom-declares-state-of-emergency-in-butte-county-due-to-camp-fire\/\">emergency proclamation<\/a>\u00a0for Butte County\u00a0due to the\u00a0effects of the Camp Fire. The Governor\u2019s Office of Emergency Services has also activated the State Operations Center in Mather, California\u00a0to its highest level\u00a0and is coordinating with other local, state and federal emergency response officials to address emergency management needs.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Governor Newsom\u2019s request for a Presidential Emergency Declaration can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/11.8.18-Request-for-Presidential-Emergency-Declaration.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More information on state and federal emergency declarations can be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.caloes.ca.gov\/RecoverySite\/Documents\/Emergency%20Proclamation%20reference%20guide.pdf\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;Acting Governor Gavin Newsom today sent a letter to the President and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requesting a Presidential Emergency Declaration for Direct Federal Assistance to support the communities impacted by wildfires burning across the state, including the Camp Fire in Butte County, the\u00a0Hill and Woolsey fires in Ventura County, the Nurse Fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ltgnoflash.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}