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Trump Suggests Bizarre Plan to Dampen Forests to Prevent Wildfires [1]
['Alia Shoaib']
Date: 2023-09-30
Donald Trump suggested that California keep its vast forests damp to prevent wildfire.
Trump said he would "get it done so fast" but added that Gov. Newsom probably couldn't be convinced.
The former president also criticized the state for "very poor land management."
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Former President Donald Trump revealed an unusual plan to stop wildfires from raging in California.
Trump suggested that the Golden State's rougly 33 million acres of forest should be kept damp while speaking at a California Republicans' convention in Anaheim on Friday.
"They say that there's so much water up north that I want to have the overflow areas go into your forests and dampen your forests, because if you dampen your forests you're not gonna have these forest fires that are burning at levels that nobody's ever seen," Trump said to a cheering crowd.
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