Auto news on Youtube Oct 23 2017

JUDY WOODRUFF: Firefighters say they are making some progress battling the wildfires in Northern

California.

In all, the fires have consumed more than 220,000 acres, an area larger than New York

City.

More than 5,700 structures have been destroyed.

And at least 41 people have died, making it the deadliest wildfire in the state's history.

The wine industry and the tourism business connected with it are trying to take stock.

More than $50 billion in California's economy comes from the wine business.

And nearly 24 million people visit the region for that reason every year.

Special correspondent Joanne Jennings reports from Napa County.

JOANNE JENNINGS: The Mayacamas mountain range creates a natural barrier between Sonoma and

Napa Counties.

And it is here where the massive Nuns fire is posing a tough challenge for some 11,000

firefighters who are taming the blaze with aircraft and units on the ground.

CAPT.

MARK BRENNERMAN, Firefighter: We're going around and making sure none of these fires

that are still smoldering and smoking, we're not going to get another big fire out of them.

JOANNE JENNINGS: Even as firefighters are battling shifting winds, owners and workers

in Wine Country are trying to determine just how much damage has been done.

The tony Highlands gated community was among the first to be consumed by flames when the

Atlas fire raced through this canyon, leaving several mansions in rubble.

Down the hill, at the Silverado resort, charred remnants of the Safeway PGA Tour remain.

The major golf event had just wrapped up last Sunday afternoon, a few hours before flames

engulfed tents and grandstands, forcing spectators and athletes to evacuate.

MAN: Do you see how it burned right up to the retaining wall here?

JOANNE JENNINGS: Silverado resident Steve Messina (ph) stayed behind and shot video

of fire crews containing the flames, which consumed some condos.

Within minutes, flames raced three miles down Silverado Trail, home to several storied hillside

vineyards.

Most wineries in the region have been spared the worst.

But hundreds suffered some damage.

And at least eight vineyards have been significantly damaged or destroyed.

Pierre Birebent, who has been making wines for the family-owned Signorello estate for

20 years, rushed to his winery as quickly as he could.

PIERRE BIREBENT, Winemaker: I jumped right in my truck, came down, and then when I was

riding down, I saw the hill all flaming.

JOANNE JENNINGS: Two vineyard workers joined him to help save the estate's tasting room.

PIERRE BIREBENT: But the smoke was getting very thick, and the wind was very strong.

And after an hour, we couldn't breathe anymore.

At the moment, I was so upset.

It was rage to see that I couldn't do anything.

But it was like fighting a giant.

JOANNE JENNINGS: The tasting room, which also housed the winery's office and a dining room,

burned to the ground.

But Birebent says he wants to focused on what survived.

Fortunately, he said, the fire stopped short of reaching the vineyard, the crush pad, or

any of the barrels of wine stored on site; 95 percent of this year's grapes were already

picked.

But, to be on the safe side, Birebent is taking these samples to a lab to make sure the juice

is not too acidic for winemaking.

If the crops are OK, a staff of 25 employees will have jobs to return to.

As the fires begin to recede and the smoke clears, people here are beginning to wonder

when the tourists, who fuel much of the economy, will return.

It's a serious concern for Andrew and Jeni (ph) Schluter, who are self-employed and are

raising a young family.

ANDREW SCHLUTER, California: I do wine tours and transportation for people.

And my business started to do really, really well.

I was on track to have the best month ever.

JOANNE JENNINGS: Andrew just bought this new SUV, which has been idle in his driveway collecting

ash.

Jeni is a personal trainer and has family who lost their homes in the fires.

She's just not sure how they're going to make ends meet.

WOMAN: I think we're just overwhelmed, you know?

And uncertainty is kind of scary.

ANDREW SCHLUTER: We will hopefully get by for awhile, but we might make -- have to make

some hard decisions shortly.

JOANNE JENNINGS: While fires burn nearby, some vineyards are already open to tourists.

At the Raymond Vineyard, workers are crushing grapes at a feverish pitch.

The tasting room is open for the first time since the fires started.

Jeremy and Erika (ph) Moore arrived from Tennessee yesterday.

They considered canceling their trip, but decided the best way they could help people

here is to give them their business.

JEREMY MOORE, Tourist: On the one hand, a few hundred yards from here, you can see them

shuttling up with the helicopters fighting fires, but then here it's beautiful.

They are doing some great tastings, and they are working outside on the crops.

So, it's a weird combination of tragedy, but then at the same time business must go on,

too.

JOANNE JENNINGS: Proprietor Jean-Charles Boisset owns several wineries in California, France

and Canada, but like many other people here, he and his family had to evacuate their home

when the flames came dangerously close.

Still, he is bullish about the future of the wine industry in this region.

JEAN-CHARLES BOISSET, Business Owner: Napa has been one of the most amazing agricultural

places in California for a long time, so it will survive those fires.

What I love, as a Frenchman here in California, is that amazing American positive attitude.

We will recover.

We will walk again, run again, and we will welcome all our guests and give them the dreams

of fine wine.

JOANNE JENNINGS: For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Joanne Jennings in Napa Valley, California.

For more infomation >> California wine country tries to get back to business despite wildfire destruction - Duration: 5:53.

-------------------------------------------

Koi Fish Among Animals Rescued From California Wildfires By UC Davis Vets - Duration: 2:03.

For more infomation >> Koi Fish Among Animals Rescued From California Wildfires By UC Davis Vets - Duration: 2:03.

-------------------------------------------

Meteor Caused California Fires - Prophecy Update - Duration: 16:36.

The fires in northern California fulfilled a very specific and detailed prophetic dream

of Ellen G. White, which has been the subject of much interest among those who are looking

for signs of the coming of Jesus, and yet it's meaning has always eluded students

of prophecy...

Until now, that is.

Let me read the dream first, and then I'll take it point-by-point to show how this prophecy

was fulfilled in every detail by the recent fires in northern California.

Ellen White recorded this dream in a letter, as follows.

"Last Friday morning, just before I awoke, a very impressive scene was presented before me.

I seemed to awake from sleep, but was not in my home.

From the windows I could behold a terrible conflagration.

Great balls of fire were falling upon houses, and from these balls fiery arrows were flying

in every direction.

It was impossible to check the fires that were kindled, and many places were being destroyed.

The terror of the people was indescribable.

After a time I awoke and found myself at home."

Now, the big thing in this dream is that she saw balls of fire, or in other words, fireballs.

Fireballs describe a certain class of meteors that are larger than shooting stars, and brighter,

and which are often accompanied by explosions and related sounds.

A fireball is the result of a meteor entering the earth's atmosphere, and potentially

striking the surface, depending on how large it is, and whether or not the meteor burns

up completely before reaching the ground.

So right off the bat, we're faced with the question of what caused these fires in northern

California.

So far arson has not been identified as a likely cause for the fires, which means it

was most probably a natural cause of some kind, very likely a meteor fireball.

In fact, even though the authorities and major news outlets are not speaking about it, you

can find a lot of evidence on-line to confirm that it was started by a meteor strike, including

eye-witness reports from people who saw the fireball impact that caused these fires.

Interestingly, Ellen White described fiery arrows flying in every direction from these

fireballs in her dream, she stated that many places were being destroyed.

It was not a single location.

That seems to be exactly what happened to cause multiple simultaneous fires in such

a wide area.

Apparently the meteor broke up into smaller "fiery arrows" that struck over the whole

area.

Now, she says a few other details.

She says these fireballs fell upon houses.

Indeed, that was the case.

In another similar account, she mentions one fireball falling among mansions, in particular.

One of the neighborhoods that was completely destroyed was called Fountaingrove, and this

was where some of the richest people in the area lived.

A resident called them the "McMansions" of the vineyard owners.

All the other details of the dream match as well.

It was at night, as indicated, and it was impossible to check or control the fires,

which is why they simply had to evacuate the people.

She spoke of the fires having been kindled, and the people are talking about the houses

in Santa Rosa as being tinderboxes.

And she described the terror of the people being indescribable, and really when you listen

to some of the interviews, you see how hard-pressed the people are to find words to describe what

they saw.

It's just indescribable.

Well, Ellen White relates this dream as one that she had after going to sleep, and before

waking up.

That would be a bit obvious, for a dream, so the fact that she mentions it means it

must be important, and symbolic.

And it's simply because this event happend after her death, when she went to sleep, and

before her resurrection, when she will wake up, therefore it was presented to her as a

dream in between.

She also seemed very interested in understanding whether this impressive scene would affect

her home or not.

She recognized that it was not the windows of her own home she was looking through.

Now, keep in mind that Ellen White's home, called Elmshaven, is located right in the

middle of the area that these fires surround, but the fires didn't actually approach Elmshaven,

her Estate.

And therefore it was not her home that was affected by the fires.

A lot of the points mentioned in this prophecy came across very clearly in a radio interview

with a Santa Rosa caller.

I'd like to share part of that interview with you.

Now, this caller didn't seem to recognize that these fires were caused by a meteor strike,

but as you listen to his efforts to piece together the evidence and describe what probably

happened, you can see that a meteor strike is the perfect explanation for everything

he says.

Notably, many people say that the hard-hit areas look like they were bombed, and of course

that gives rise to conspiracy theories of all kinds, which this particular caller tries

to avoid, but an exploding meteor explains this completely with no conspiracy needed.

Check out how the description matches the prophecy.

Calling from a 228 area code, who is this, and where are you calling from?

Hi, it's Jesse from Santa Rosa.

How are you doing Sam?

I'm doing well, Jesse, what's on your mind?

Well, I'm in Santa Rosa.

So it's windy, still fires going on.

How far are you from the fires?

I'm in west Santa Rosa, so for the most part we remain relatively untouched with

the notable exception of the Coffey Park area.

It's.. so we can see the smoke but the skies are fairly clear.

It's- it's bad, Sam, it's really bad.

Jesse, have you seen this video, have you seen this video of... by a drone...

I'll stop you.

I didn't need to see a video; I've seen the neighborhood, Sam.

Ah jeez.

I'm a history guy, so I really deep dive into things like World War II, Vietnam,

all that kind of stuff—very familiar with the black-and-white photographs of burned out

streets due to firebombing, and that is exactly what it looks like.

We're actually— right now we're looking at the— there's drone footage, I guess a

postman, I don't understand what's going on here with this, but they...

Yeah, dystopian to say the least.

It looks...

It's almost impossible to sort of... to process.

I mean I've never seen anything quite like this.

But I mean, how did this happen so quickly?

Well, there's various rumors about how it happened, and how it occurred...

It started in Calistoga, 70-80-99— 90-mile-an-hour winds were invigorated by a thunderstorm,

picked up, made a fireball, and rolled it right down Calistoga valley into eastern Santa

Rosa.

Where my wife works, in Kaiser Hospital, there's a neighborhood directly behind it called Fountaingrove.

That neighborhood is just... gone.

There's nothing.

I mean, absolutely... nothing.

That fireball came in on the wee hours of Monday morning and people had no notice.

This was not like a hurricane where you get days of notice in advance.

Yes, hurricanes can change, I understand that, but for the most part, usually you have advance

notice.

You know what's coming.

It's not a major shock.

This was like somebody exploded a thousand-pound bomb in a tinderbox, and everybody woke up

and went, you know—excuse my french—oh shit.

We went out on our balcony...

I'm a veteran—I've been to Iraq, I've been to Iran, and I looked out on the balcony and I'd never

seen anything like it. It was...

It was... jaw-dropping.

There were orange glows in the sky everywhere, it was surreal, my wife and I looked at each

other and we said, "Oh, shit."

You know, you become a little bit mercenary in times like this.

Sometimes you become a little bit selfish and you know, you hope it's not your home,

but at the same time, there is...

I'm a runner, I run all over Santa Rosa, I have for years, in the state parks and everything

else, and all these lovely places that I know are gone.

I— it's— it's a tragedy we're going to be dealing with for years.

It's— it's difficult to take, it's hard...

Now let me ask you this.

Like, there seems to be multiple fires, well no.

There are multiple fires, right?

Are they— were they— how does that happen?

Like is it— is it just, it catches in one area and just sort of burns out in another?

Like these are all coming from the same source?

Well, my wife's father, my father-in-law, is a firefighter.

He's retired.

He was a firefighter in this area, for over forty years.

And this is what he relayed to us, and we've heard it backed-up by anecdotes that we've

heard on the radio.

Basically, you can take an ember, and the winds are so fast and so turbulent that that ember

can be picked up, and the ember can be the size of your shoe.

And it can get underneith a house, and with the wind, that house can be a tinderbox and

it can be up in moments.

So you have these big fires, and those embers split off and cause other fires.

Its the big fire splits off into other fires that form big fires.

And it all originated in Napa and Calistoga, and now the horrible thing for the Calistoga

folks is the big fire that pushed out of the east into the west from there has now done

a 180 and is going right back toward Calistoga.

Right.

And we wake up every morning now, and we live in a completely different world

than the one we lived in a week ago.

And the obvious— Fortunately for Sonoma County and Napa, and I will say this, we are

a— there is money here.

They are fairly wealthy counties for the most part.

So we're going to be okay in the long run.

Most of the people up in Fountaingrove are very wealthy folks.

They have good insurance.

They will be okay.

No offense, but a millionare that owns a winery who has a McMansion burn down, I mean, I know

it sounds callous, but they're going to be okay.

It's horrible, but they have means to recover.

Right.

I understand...

Okay, so there you have it, and there are other eye-witness reports on-line as well,

by a resident of the area named Marie Jasper for example, who actually witnessed the impact

that night, along with others.

According to the report, she said she and a small group of friends had been outdoors

on October 8 when they saw several fireballs streaking across the sky.

She said she heard a deafening rumble, as if the sky was being ripped apart, before

a meteor penetrated the atmosphere intact and struck a densely wooded area near her

home.

She said, quoting her words now:

"We tried to photograph it as it was coming in, but they were just too fast.

There one second; a split second later, we heard that horrible noise in the sky and then

the ground shook, as it hit not too far from here, I imagine.

Almost immediately, flames began licking the treetops.

We knew we were in trouble.

There was more than one; other people must have seen them too.

I don't know how many or where exactly the others hit."

So you see, every detail of this unique prophecy of Ellen White has come true, and it shows

that we really are at the end of time, when God is beginning to judge the wickedness of

the world with fire from heaven, just as He did in the time of Sodom and Gomorrah.

The more I see what's going on, the more my heart just breaks for the suffering of

the people there, but on the other hand, the history of places like Fountaingrove, and

the immoral values that are cherished by the whole wine country area, really make me realize

that...

Folks, sin comes at a cost.

You can't love sin with impunity.

He who hath an ear, let him hear.

In closing here, let me just share with you the other similar vision that Ellen White

had about the fireball.

She said,

"In the visions of the night a very impressive scene passed before me.

I saw an immense ball of fire fall among some beautiful mansions, causing their instant

destruction.

I heard someone say: 'We knew that the judgments of God were coming upon the earth, but we

did not know that they would come so soon.'

Others, with agonized voices, said: 'You knew!

Why then did you not tell us?

We did not know.'

On every side I heard similar words of reproach spoken."

Thank you for watching this Prophecy Update.

We've got another video about the first trumpet and how these fires are part of it,

and there we talk a little bit more about the apostasy of the area, of the nation.

Visit WhiteCloudFarm.org, subscribe to our channels, like & share all our materials to

help get God's last great message out to humanity before it's too late.

For more information about God's clock in Orion, please visit LastCountdown.org, where

you can find all the studies from the First Time Proclamation concerning the Second Advent

of Jesus Christ.

For the latest information from the Second Time Proclamation, including present-day fulfillments

of Bible prophecy, please visit WhiteCloudFarm.org, and don't forget to subscribe to our Alnitak

newsletter.

Please remember to subscribe to our YouTube channels, like us and friend us on Facebook,

and share our materials on all your social networks.

We hope to see YOU on the white cloud soon.

For more infomation >> Meteor Caused California Fires - Prophecy Update - Duration: 16:36.

-------------------------------------------

Rain Brings Breath Of Fresh Air To Areas Hit Hard By California Wildfires - Duration: 2:43.

For more infomation >> Rain Brings Breath Of Fresh Air To Areas Hit Hard By California Wildfires - Duration: 2:43.

-------------------------------------------

Looking for the bare necessities, bears get more active in California - Duration: 2:00.

For more infomation >> Looking for the bare necessities, bears get more active in California - Duration: 2:00.

-------------------------------------------

Imágenes muestran dramático escape de las llamas en California | Noticiero | Telemundo - Duration: 1:01.

For more infomation >> Imágenes muestran dramático escape de las llamas en California | Noticiero | Telemundo - Duration: 1:01.

-------------------------------------------

Habitantes de Agua Caliente, preocupados por el desempleo a causa de los incendios en California - Duration: 2:26.

For more infomation >> Habitantes de Agua Caliente, preocupados por el desempleo a causa de los incendios en California - Duration: 2:26.

-------------------------------------------

California Cartoonist Creates Comic Strip To Process Losing His Home To A Wildfire - Duration: 1:52.

For more infomation >> California Cartoonist Creates Comic Strip To Process Losing His Home To A Wildfire - Duration: 1:52.

-------------------------------------------

California bill would ban secret settlements in all sexual assault suits - Duration: 2:18.

For more infomation >> California bill would ban secret settlements in all sexual assault suits - Duration: 2:18.

-------------------------------------------

Weather cooperating, Firefighters making good progress in No. California fires - Duration: 1:47.

For more infomation >> Weather cooperating, Firefighters making good progress in No. California fires - Duration: 1:47.

-------------------------------------------

Northern California Wildfire Escapes Caught on Camera - Duration: 0:54.

For more infomation >> Northern California Wildfire Escapes Caught on Camera - Duration: 0:54.

-------------------------------------------

Lost Dog Found Amid Ruins Of California Wildfire - Duration: 0:31.

For more infomation >> Lost Dog Found Amid Ruins Of California Wildfire - Duration: 0:31.

-------------------------------------------

Rain and snow return to Northern California - Duration: 1:56.

For more infomation >> Rain and snow return to Northern California - Duration: 1:56.

-------------------------------------------

California Wildfires: At Least 40 Dead As Winds Subside | NBC News - Duration: 2:18.

For more infomation >> California Wildfires: At Least 40 Dead As Winds Subside | NBC News - Duration: 2:18.

-------------------------------------------

Sarah Palin And Breitbart Blame Deadly California Fires On Immigrants - Duration: 3:44.

Good news ladies and gentlemen.

It turns out that some of the sharpest minds in the Republican world have figured out who's

to blame for the wildfires in California that have left dozens of people dead and billions

of dollars worth of damage throughout the state of California.

Sarah Palin, Breitbart News and Info Wars Alex Jones say that they have found the single

culprit.

His name is Jesus Gonzales and yes, he is an immigrant and so yes, that is 100% why

they're blaming him.

At it turns out Mr. Gonzales was a regular overnight visitor to a state park in California

one of the areas that's been severely damaged by these wildfires.

Mr. Gonzales was homeless, that's why he slept in the park.

One night, he made a small fire to keep himself warm.

The Authorities came in, said, "You can't start a fire," so they put out the fire.

The fire was 100% put out and then they arrested Mr. Gonzales for arson.

The fire that he has started to keep himself warm because he's homeless did not cause the

wildfires.

Authorities confirmed that they completely extinguished that particular fire.

However, that fact and any other possible fact out there has not stopped these idiots

like Palin and Breitbart and Alex Jones from saying that Mr. Gonzales is the sole cause

of these California wildfires.

Well, here's a crazy, coo-coo conspiracy theory for you folks.

I'm going to go with climate change.

I'm going to go with the fact that for years, year after year, after year, after year the

state of California was in a severe state of drought.

Why?

Because of climate change, because of the severe weather events that happen as a result

of climate change.

That dried everything out.

That dried out forests.

That dried out huge swaths of land.

You know what happens when you get a lightening strike or an errant spark?

You get a wildfire.

That's what happened, but no.

Republicans don't want to accept that reality.

They don't want to think that maybe the actions of all of us in this country helped contribute

to this.

Instead, they would rather take this opportunity to blame their favorite scapegoat of all,

immigrants.

Why?

Because it just gives them another reason to say, "We need to put the stupid wall up.

We need to stop people from coming over the border.

We need to stop immigration in the United States because look, they just burned down

the state of California."

Well, even though there's no truth to their claim, they're not going to stop saying it

because they do not want people coming in to the United States.

They want to keep it as white and redneck and ignorant as possible because that's what

happens when you shut down your borders and stop allowing diversity of culture, diversity

of opinion into the country.

These idiots will stop at nothing, they will use every possible thing as a scapegoat in

order to shut down our borders.

For more infomation >> Sarah Palin And Breitbart Blame Deadly California Fires On Immigrants - Duration: 3:44.

-------------------------------------------

"Everything was on Fire": CA Resident Describes Fleeing 30-Foot-High Flames Surrounding Her Ranch - Duration: 7:01.

AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to turn to Jan Hoyman now, who is in Ukiah, in Northern California,

a pottery artist who narrowly escaped the fire in Mendocino County last week.

Jan, thanks so much for being with us.

Can you describe what happened to you?

JAN HOYMAN: OK.

I awoke Monday morning really early—I'm not sure what time—to the sound of a locomotive,

but then there were the pops of propane tanks exploding.

I smelled smoke.

I looked out the window, and I knew the fire was right there, right next to me.

I grabbed my dog, and I'm in my nightgown.

As I'm running to my car, my neighbor is coming down the hill with—I live remotely—coming

down the hill honking her horn.

I jump in my car, go down the ranch road, and there she is.

Her car is stuck in the road.

She jumps in with her four kids.

Now the flames are 20 to 30 feet tall on both sides of our ranch driveway.

Everything's on fire.

We're trying to get out to the main road.

There is a pine tree down in the middle of the road, on fire.

Instead of turning around, we back up and go very quickly, as fast as we can, to a place

where we can then try to go across the vineyards.

They were on fire.

We turned and started to go uphill back towards her house.

When we were about halfway up to her house—and maybe the road is two miles long—and then

we could start to breathe a little bit easier.

The kids were nice and calm the whole time.

The fire wasn't all around us at this point.

We did get to her home.

And her husband and the four kids, Charlotte and I jumped into their four-wheel-drive trucks

and drove to another spot.

I have hiked to this spot many times, but I could not have found it in the dark.

She and her husband were just the savior for me at this point.

I helped them by getting the kids in the car.

They helped me by getting to Rattlesnake Rock.

We then hiked, in the dark, with the kids, flashlights in hand, up and down a ravine

a couple of times to another neighbor's house.

And this is maybe three-quarters of a mile away.

Now the fire is farther down in the valley, but we can see it encroaching, coming closer.

Her husband found a four-wheeler in the shed of the neighbor, who had left days earlier.

There were keys in the ignition.

We were quite lucky about that.

He found a trailer to put behind us, and now all seven of us drove down the road on the

four-wheeler.

We're watching the fire come up the mountainside at this point.

We get to another neighbor's house.

They're watching the fire.

And they don't know if they're going to evacuate.

We have a flat tire.

But one of the young men kindly took us in his truck to Willits.

Now, driving—we hiked out, but to drive to Willits usually takes about a half an hour,

if you have clear roads.

So we wound our way on the back mountainous roads to the Willits evacuation center, which

was the police station and community center.

AMY GOODMAN: Jan, was there a mandatory evacuation in your area?

I think what people don't understand who are not experiencing these fires is how fast

they come up.

Why hadn't you left until the point when you did?

That's what I think a lot of people can't understand.

JAN HOYMAN: That's a great question.

Well, my electricity was out, and my cellphone wasn't working.

And that's how I receive messages, through my cellphone.

When the electricity went down and the cell towers went down because the fire was moving

so quickly, there was no way to let people know how quickly they needed to move.

Yes, there was mandatory evacuation, but I had no idea that that was happening.

You know, to rely on the cell system, cellphone system, to let people know what's happening

is really a faulty idea, at least in our area, because the towers go down.

AMY GOODMAN: Do you think state and local officials should have done more?

And what do you think should happen at the federal level?

JAN HOYMAN: You know, I cannot make a comment on that, because I'm just a person here

living, and I know that there are so many different complicated issues around it.

Yes, I think, in general, we need to prepare more for these kind of catastrophes.

And my personal opinion is that we, as a community—the ranch I live on had about 20 different homes

on it and scattered around about a thousand acres.

And I think we, as a small community, need to try to investigate and put together a system

that we can warn each other.

AMY GOODMAN: And do you know if your home still exists?

JAN HOYMAN: My home is melted, basically.

I had a cement—excuse me, stucco walls and a metal roof.

And maybe there's parts of it standing, but really there's no home left.

I do have some photographs that a neighbor took.

I haven't been allowed back into the area.

There's still mandatory evacuations in the area.

AMY GOODMAN: And let me turn to the climate scientist Daniel Swain.

How toxic is the ash, is the smoke in these areas?

DANIEL SWAIN: Well, I am certainly not an expert in the composition of wildfire smoke.

But, you know, the smoke in these fires, you have to remember, especially when they burn

through populated areas, it isn't just wood smoke and particulate matter from the brush

and grass, as you'd get during truly a wildfire.

What you're also getting is compounds that are combusting in people's homes and businesses

that are burning, as well, and so you have this—what must be a pretty volatile mix

of stuff up there in these plumes, when they start burning urban areas.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, Daniel Swain, I want to thank you for joining us from UCLA, climate

scientist in Los Angeles.

And Jan Hoyman, all the best to you, your community.

Thank God you escaped.

Jan Hoyman, an artist who escaped the fire in Mendocino County.

This is Democracy Now!

When we come back, who is a "black identity extremist"?

And why is the federal government putting out reports on them?

Stay with us.