https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/09/23/gov-newsom-signs-15-billion-climate-wildfire-package-at-sequoia-national-park/

Speaking at Sequoia National Park, where firefighters have toiled for the past two weeks to keep wildfires from killing some of the largest trees in the world, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed a package of bills providing $15 billion for a wide range of climate, wildfire and water projects — from expanding forest thinning to building electric car charging stations and encouraging the development of offshore wind farms.

Newsom noted that six of the seven largest fires in California’s recorded history have happened in the past two years. Entire communities, like Paradise, Greenville and Grizzly Flats, near South Lake Tahoe, which burned in the Caldor Fire this summer, have been destroyed in recent years.