Trump tweets on California wildfires spark confusion, debate

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http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/S1T9LiCGKf4mGkm3kW0CMA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2018-08-07T020611Z_1_LYNXMPEE7603Y_RTROPTP_2_USA-TRUMP.JPG (https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-tweets-california-wildfires-spark-confusion-debate-020611941.html)By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fire authorities insisted on Monday that they have ample water supplies to fight California's devastating wildfires, contrary to U.S. President Donald Trump's tweets that unspecified water diversions to the Pacific were making matters worse. Officials from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) and the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, stressed that wild-land blazes are battled primarily by crews hacking away at dry brush with hand tools and bulldozers, not with water. "Yes, we have plenty of water," CalFire Chief Scott McLean said by telephone, adding that the two largest blazes in California this week - the Carr Fire and the Mendocino Complex Fire - were each ringed by at least three major reservoirs.



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