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Fact Check: Trump's California Fire Tweet

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Channel: The YEARS Project · 2018 · News & Politics

President Donald J. Trump blasted out a tweet about the largest fire in California history, but its contents has firefighters scratching their heads. Here are the facts.

SOURCES:
[i] USAtoday.com. California's largest wildfire tops 300,000 acres; containment remains at 47 percent. Aug 8 2018. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/08/08/california-fires-mendocino-complex-fire/943899002/
[ii] NYTimes.com. Trump Inaccurately Claims California Is Wasting Water as Fires Burn
Image. Aug 6 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/climate/trump-california-fire-tweets.html
[iii] Sacbee.com. Fire crews hit milestone with 51 percent containment of Mendocino Complex blaze. Aug 9 2018. https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article216369580.html

[iv] TIME.com. What to Know About the Mendocino Complex Fire, the Largest Wildfire in California History. Aug 7 2018. http://time.com/5359635/mendocino-complex-fire-what-to-know/
[v] NYTimes.com. Trump Inaccurately Claims California Is Wasting Water as Fires Burn
Image. Aug 6 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/climate/trump-california-fire-tweets.html
[vi] UCSUSA.org. Playing with Fire: The Soaring Costs of Western Wildfires (2014). Jul 2014. https://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/impacts/climate-change-development-patterns-wildfire-costs.html
[vii] ClimateCentral.org. WESTERN WILDFIRES: A Fiery Future. Jun 2016
http://assets.climatecentral.org/pdfs/westernwildfires2016v2.pdf
[viii] ClimateCentral.org. Large Wildfires Are Now More Common and Destructive. Aug 31 2015. http://www.climatecentral.org/news/large-wildfires-more-common-destructive-19387

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