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“California employers have been hearing about an economic downturn, and in response have been freezing hiring, withdrawing job offers and even undertaking layoffs, in some cases.
The fire had been growing quickly, adding strain to firefighting efforts in Southern California. The Los Angeles Fire Department issued an evacuation order shortly after 6 p.m. local time ...
H.D. Palmer, a spokesman for the Department of Finance, reiterated that the state’s financial picture could still change between now and Jan. 10 when Newsom’s budget is due.
Fire activity decreased during August, but a long period of extreme heat across the Western United States during early September allowed numerous wildfires across the state to grow rapidly, such as the Line Fire, the Bridge Fire, and the Airport Fire in Southern California. Later in September, fire activity again decreased due to improved fire ...
Insurance and utility stocks with California exposure took a hit Friday as Los Angeles firefighters continued to attempt to contain wildfires that have destroyed thousands of structures and left ...
The Mountain Fire began shortly before 9:00 a.m. PST on November 6 during an episode of strong Santa Ana winds in Southern California. [2] The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center delineated an "extremely critical" risk area on their Day 1 fire weather outlook, warning of low relative humidity values combined with a strong wind event with gusts of over 65 miles per hour (105 km/h ...
Tawny Tesconi, Executive Director of the Sonoma County Farm Bureau, joins Yahoo Finance's Zack Guzman and Sibile Marcellus to discuss the economic impact the wildfires are having on Sonoma County ...
California land area totals 99,813,760 or roughly 100 million acres, so since 2000, the area that burned annually has ranged between 90,000 acres, or 0.09%, and 1,590,000 acres, or 1.59% of the total land of California. [2] During the 2020 wildfire season alone, over 8,100 fires contributed to the burning of nearly 4.5 million acres of land.