SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration this week rejected California’s request for disaster relief funds aimed at cleaning up the damage from six recent野火among the siege of deadly and destructive blazes that have scorched the state.
总督弗格森（Brian Ferguson）在总督紧急服务办公室的布莱恩·弗格森（Brian Ferguson）表示，民主党州长加文·纽瑟姆（Gavin Newsom）于9月28日正式向白宫提交了一封信。
“The state plans to appeal the decision and believes we have a strong case that California’s request meets the federal requirements for approval,” Ferguson said in an email to The Associated Press on Friday.
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他说，与此同时，国家正在追求其他途径进行报销和支持，以帮助个人和社区重建和康复。
Federal major disaster declarations allow for cost-sharing for damage, cleanup and rebuilding between the state and federal governments. They also activate relief programs led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Denials of relief are rare and Newsom has previously praised the Trump administration for approving aid related to the fires and California’s struggles with the coronavirus pandemic.
No major new fires were reported statewide early Friday, but warnings of dangerously hot, dry and gusty conditions that can fan fires were expected to remain in effect until the evening. Nearly 9,000 firefighters remain on the lines of 21 fires.
许多研究将美国更大的野火与燃烧煤炭，油气的气候变化联系起来。科学家说，气候变化使加利福尼亚变得更干燥，这意味着树木和其他植物更易燃。
Thousands of Northern California residents remained without electricity Friday after a utility cut off service to prevent powerful winds from damaging equipment and sparking wildfires amid a fall heat wave.
Power restorations began Thursday afternoon and by evening Pacific Gas and Electric said about 30,000 customers were still in the dark — down from about 45,000 the previous night.
PG＆E说，本周第二轮热潮的阵风在该地区转移并增加了火灾风险后，预计所有电力将在周五下旬恢复。
自今年年初以来，这是加利福尼亚州一个灾难性的野火季节，有8,500多个燃烧燃烧了超过6,400平方英里（16,000平方公里）。31人死亡，约9200座建筑物被摧毁。
Meanwhile, winds in the Sierra Nevada foothills and San Francisco Bay Area topped 55 mph (89 kph), and humidity levels plummeted, making for critical fire conditions, said Scott Strenfel, the utility’s senior meteorologist.
Strenfel周四表示：“燃料正在干燥，并且仅考虑到我们看到的这些干燥水平，它们就非常容易受到任何火火点火的影响。”
PG&E began cutting power Wednesday evening as the first wind event began. Many in the wine country north of San Francisco said they feel drained by what seems like a never-ending wildfire season.
凯瑟琳·柯林斯（Kathleen Collins）由于火灾而不得不在过去五年中四次撤离纳帕县山区的房屋。今年夏天，她离开家后在一家汽车旅馆里住了两周，当时一堆大火到达了她的小谷社区。
“这一切都很压力。People are not happy, but there’s not much they can do about it,” said Collins, assistant manager at Silverado Ace Hardware store in Calistoga, the town of 5,000 people who were allowed to return home just last week after the Glass Fire forced them out in September.
在摧毁了1,500多个房屋和其他建筑物后，周三遏制了纳帕和索诺玛县地区的大火。
People have been buying generators, electrical cords, flashlights, batteries, gas cans and other supplies to help them deal with the latest outage, expected to last through Friday evening, Collins said.
The utility better targeted outages this time after it was criticized in 2019 for cutting power to about 800,000 customers and leaving about 2 million people in the dark for days.
Most of this year’s fires have occurred since mid-August, when an unusual siege of thousands of lightning strikes ignited huge blazes.
9月爆发的两次大火的原因仍在调查中。PG＆E设备正在与北加州的佐格大火有关，而南加州爱迪生设备在洛杉矶附近的山猫大火中受到审查。
国家气象局说，自9月4日在该州中部，巨大的小河火灾中烟雾仍在影响南部的空气质量，直至洛杉矶。
气象局在周五发布了热咨询，预计该州许多地区的温度将达到三位数。
在南加州，雷德兰兹市附近的一场刷子大火引发了一个小疏散，随着它长达170英亩（69公顷）。大约包含50％。
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