The smog is affecting cities hundreds of miles away from the fire, and the state is warning people about the air quality.Ī monitoring station in Palermo, California, near the Camp Fire said levels of pollutants are 13 times higher than at a station near the Nevada state line in Truckee, California. Search teams in the area of the Camp Fire are dealing with heavy smoke and hazardous air pollution. 'All these disasters take multiple years to get through.' California issues warning about air quality 'Right now, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is working with 700 open disasters,' FEMA Administrator Brock Long told reporters Wednesday.

Government officials said rebuilding efforts could take years. 'And families, you know, they're staying with people, but, you know, they can't stay there forever.' 'There's more evacuees, more people running out of money for hotels,' said Matthew Flanagan of Paradise, which was left in ruins by the fire. Evacuees forced to set up camp in parking lot It spreads commonly when people are in close quarters. Norovirus is highly contagious and can cause diarrhea, fever and body aches. Staff mopped floors with bleach Wednesday at the Neighborhood Church in Chico, where a large room has been converted into a makeshift medical care center. She did not know how many people had contracted the virus.

Those who were sick have been quarantined at the shelter in Chico, California, but in an area separate from healthy evacuees, Almaguer said. Butte County public health spokeswoman Lisa Almaguer said lab tests confirmed the virus' presence. There's been an outbreak of norovirus at a shelter housing people who evacuated their homes to escape the Camp Fire. 'We can't just fight it.' Norovirus outbreak at Camp Fire shelter 'We've got to get on the side of nature,' the governor said. Brown said forests in the state should be managed better, cities should be built more intelligently and climate change had to be addressed. Zinke said there was no 'silver bullet' to tackling the problem and emphasized cooperation between various levels of government. This is an American issue, and we should address it as such.'

This is not a Republican or Democrat issue. 'It's unsustainable to have this happen year after year or have a season like this where you have hundred-thousand-acre fires becoming routine,' Zinke said during a press conference with California Gov. Zinke called the Camp Fire the worst fire that he had ever seen. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said that fighting massive wildfires was 'not a Republican or Democrat issue' days after President Trump had threatened to withhold federal aid for California and blaming the fires on 'poor' forest management. 'This is not a Republican or Democrat issue' No other details were provided about the president's trip. President Trump will travel to California on Saturday to meet with wildfire victims, the White House said Thursday. Trump to meet with wildfire victims In this aerial photo, a burned neighborhood is seen in Paradise, Calif., on Nov. Schools in San Francisco, Sacramento, Oakland and elsewhere have announced they will be closed Friday because of the poor air quality. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency made the announcement on Twitter, saying buses would provide service for the remainder of the day. The city's transportation agency said Thursday that because of the poor air quality, 'all cable cars will be pulling back into the cable car barn.' San Francisco's iconic open-air cable cars have been pulled off the streets because of choking air wafting in from a wildfire in Northern California. San Francisco cable cars halted over smoky air

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