"WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is scorching the facts about California’s wildfires.

The president in recent tweets blamed California and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for the fires because of state forest management practices and said California’s fires were too expensive and worse than in other states. In fact, the fires were not raging mostly in forests. The bulk of California’s forests are also federally managed, and other parts of the U.S. are burning even more.

Four university professors who study fires and the environment faulted the president’s tweets Sunday to varying degrees."

Seth Borenstein reports for the Associated Press November 5, 2019. [2]