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From KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Lily Jamali.

Napa vintners want the county to consider ending its contract with Cal Fire and forming its own fire department instead.

We'll hear why they're rethinking, how to respond to wildfire, and look what the real options are for self-help firefighting efforts.

But first, emails obtained by Capitol Public Radio and NPR's California Newsroom reveal Cal Fire's internal response to a recent investigation showing the Newsom administration overstated its record on wildfire prevention.

We'll get the latest on that and on the wildfires and evacuations from reporter Scott Rod.

That's next on forum right after this news.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Lily Jamali. More than 42,000 California residents have been told to evacuate their homes as nine major wildfires continue to burn. And more than one and a half million acres have burned this year. That's more than had burned it this time last year in what was

then a record-breaking fire season. Joining us for an update on the fires and evacuations and to check

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