If you watch the news gatherers or read news gathering, you have not been able to ignore

the fire in Northern California. It's particularly a feature of network newscasts. Yes, it is presented

as an example of climate change. It's presented as an example of man, us, people, humans, burning fossil

fuels. That cannot be determined. And I don't mean to suggest this fire is not insignificant. It's dreadful.

People are losing everything they've worked for all their lives. People have lost their lives.

It's scarring beautiful, beautiful country. Firefighters have died. It's a dreadful, dreadful fire.

Is that understood? I want to give four ends in the people listening and liberal lakes to understand

that I think this is an absolutely regrettable, horrible situation. I started playing around with

the numbers. Well, the Mendocino complex fire in Northern California is now the largest in

state history. And that I've been able to determine by research is not true, but I'll get to that

in a moment. Okay. So far 283,800 acres. This is from the Sacramento Bee Cal Fire reported Monday.

The 11 day old blaze is mainly mountainous terrain near Clear Lake. Top the 11 day old blaze in

mainly mountainous terrain near Clear Lake. Top the Thomas fire, which was the state's largest

for about eight months after burning through 281,893 acres in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties in

December of 2017 in January of 2018. All right. Cal Fire operations chief Charlie Blankenheim said

in a video update Monday morning on Facebook that success against the river fire was due to a very

large aircraft show Sunday, 15 to 18 helicopters made water drops out of Clear Lake and 10 to 12 air

tankers made drops throughout the day. If today goes well, the river fire is going to be in really good

shape tonight. He said, all right. The two fires have combined. So it's a massive, massive, massive

fire. All right. The car fire has also hit the states all time charts for destruction. The fire

has destroyed more than 1600 structures. Many of them homes in redding, making it the sixth most

damaging in state history. Okay. Let's go back to the beginning. The Mendocino complex fire in

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