Associated Press
California's Office of Emergency Services and Cal Fire provided updates on the Glass Fire in Sonoma and Napa County.
A number of officials spoke during the conference on the progress of the firefight. The fire acreage remains as it was on Thursday morning, 56,781 acres and 5 percent contained. 143 structures have been destroyed and 46 damaged in both Napa and Sonoma counties. However, over 24,000 structures are still threatened by encroaching flames.
“What we’re looking at is a point in time,” said Cal Fire Director Chief Thom Porter in response to a question about where California can go after this historic fire season, and what changes need to be made.
Porter went on to reference a previous historic fire season on the West Coast in the early 1900s, after which fire agencies worked to better understand fire behavior and mitigation.
"What we’re doing is looking at it holistically," Porter said. "It’s not just more firefighters. It's not just more aircraft. It's not just more fuels reduction project work. It's not just defensible space or home hardening. It is absolutely every one those things. We need every piece of the system to be raised to meet the challenge that the changing climate is giving us and that California is going to be in the future."