Winery co-founder Ames Morison decided to concentrate full time on the winery’s sustainability goals and to speak out more forcibly for policies to mitigate climate change.
In addition to the deaths, the famous Chateau Boswell winery is gone, a community of tiny homes for homeless people has burned, and an untold number of houses are feared lost.
PG&E used deliberate power blackouts Saturday in parts of Yolo, Napa and Solano counties in Northern California as part of its “wildfire prevention” plan. High winds created “red flag” conditions.
Gov. Jerry Brown, alarmed by reports that climate change is dramatically increasing fire risk, on Thursday ordered an all-out attack by scientists, land managers, industry and the public on the dangerous conditions that helped spread last year's devastating wildfires.
