California asks US Government for billions in fire agents star-news.press/wp

Governor California Gavin Newom asked the US Federal Government for $ 40 billion (£ 31.6b) in means to help renew the area from Los Angeles devastated by January.

NewTom sent the request for congress leaders in the letter in the letter. He said the means would help the immediate and long-term operation of recovery.

“I ask the Congress to have the back of the American people and give funds for disasters to help Californians recover and restore as soon as possible,” he wrote on social media.

Fires, who started on January 7, burned 37,469 hectares and killed at least 26 people in a larger area of ​​Los Angeles.

The funds would be used to recover labor, tax incentives, wildfire resistance and private ownership renovation, told NewOM.

Under the Bindoma proposal, the largest share of funds – 42% – would go public assistance in removing and repairing debris.

“The influential communities have experienced the widespread devastation and the overall impact on the California economy will take years to fully qualify”, it wrote any qualified, “the journalist wrote.

About 150,000 inhabitants were displaced from fire outbreak in early January.

Much of the area in Los Angeles Community of Pacific Palisis and Altadenes were destroyed during the beach.

The request attracted the support of some legislators who represent an area.

“This package will inject the desperately needed federal assistance to the renewal of homes, businesses and joint institutions, which will support the angels to suffer the grievances and trauma of losing loved ones,” Judy Chu, the Democratic Congress, said in the statement.

It is not clear how the request will be received in the congress, where both chambers manage the Republicans with narrow larger ones.

Last month, in front of his visit to Los Angeles, the President Donald Trump told Lisic news that he did not think that the Federal Government should give California “anything” until the water supply was transferred.

After visiting Palisiram, Trump described the destruction as “devastation.”

“I don’t think you can understand how rough it is, how rudely it is until you see that,” Trump said. “I mean, I’ve seen a lot of bad things on television, but the scope of that, size, we flew in the helicopter.”