The “Madre Fire” broke out on Wednesday in San Luis Obispo, a rural county in the heart of the US state.
The fire has engulfed 70,800 acres (28,700 hectares) since Wednesday, and more than 600 personnel and 40 fire engines have been deployed to contain it, Cal Fire, the state's fire service, said in an update on Friday.
This summer is the first since President Donald Trump announced plans to gut federal agencies tasked with fighting climate disaster.
“Trump needs to WAKE UP and start funding federal firefighters and land-management teams in these rural communities -- instead of giving tax cuts to billionaires,“ Newsom, a Democrat, wrote on X.
A separate statement from the governor’s press office said Friday that the Madre Fire “remains in a very isolated location -- away from homes.”
Southern California had an unusually dry winter and spring, and vegetation is already parched, UCLA extreme climate events specialist Daniel Swain has said.
Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has ordered budget and personnel cuts at the Forest Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and FEMA, the federal agency that coordinates disaster response.
“We need an equivalent commitment of resources -- not rhetoric,“ Newsom told reporters, noting that more than half of the land in California is under federal jurisdiction.
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