{"id":92035,"date":"2020-09-14T09:46:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T01:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=92035"},"modified":"2020-09-14T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T01:47:00","slug":"us-prestrump-to-visit-california-as-deadly-wildfires-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=92035","title":{"rendered":"US: PresTrump to visit California as deadly wildfires rage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Trump-to-visit-California-as-deadly-wildfires-rage.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Trump-to-visit-California-as-deadly-wildfires-rage.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PORTLAND, Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; US President Donald Trump said he will meet emergency services in California on Monday as record fires that have killed 27 people smothered the West Coast in dense smog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials warned of further fatalities with swathes of land in California, Oregon and Washington still cut off by flames fueled by tinder-dry conditions, as presidential challenger Joe Biden linked the fires to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unprecedented infernos have now burnt through nearly 5 million acres (2 million hectares).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump plans to meet with the heads of California\u2019s emergency services, battling fires that have scorched more than 3.2 million acres in the state this year \u2014 an annual record, with nearly four months of fire season still to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has made little comment about the blazes in recent weeks, but at a Nevada campaign event on Saturday he acknowledged the scope of the disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey never had anything like this,\u201d Trump said. \u201cPlease remember the words, very simple, forest management.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Biden, speaking earlier, said the causes were much broader: \u201cThe science is clear, and deadly signs like these are unmistakable \u2014 climate change poses an imminent, existential threat to our way of life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump can try to deny that reality, but the facts are undeniable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worsening the sense of environmental catastrophe, all five of the world\u2019s most air-polluted cities Saturday were on the West Coast, according to IQAir, with dense smog and ash coating the atmosphere from Los Angeles up to Vancouver in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Portland, thick, choking smoke blanketed the downtown area Saturday morning. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; US President Donald Trump said he will meet emergency services in California on Monday as record fires that have killed 27 people smothered the West Coast in dense smog. Officials warned of further fatalities with swathes of land in California, Oregon and Washington still cut off by flames fueled by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":92036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92035"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}