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Noah Butler, Evan McNally–
In this week’s politics podcast of The News Feed, Noah Butler and Evan McNally discuss the wildfires ravaging California. The Republican and Democratic presidential candidates have been taking sides on the wildfires, while also using the wildfires to criticize each other and their policies.
So far, 35 people have died in 2020 due to the wildfires. The LA Times reports that the past ten years of fires in California have been the most destructive on record. The current fire season in California is the most destructive season on record, having burned a total of 3.2 million acres with no signs of slowing down.