Wildfires Live Updates: Gusty Winds Could Whip Up Blazes<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nJerry Brown on a California exodus: \u2018Where are you going to go?\u2019<\/h2>\n
Jerry Brown, the former governor of California, could barely make out the mountains in the distance from his ranch in the city of Williams on Sunday. Every few minutes, he picked up his phone to check the latest air quality reading. \u201cUnhealthy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mr. Brown, who served over 45 years in state government and politics, has been warning about this day for years. But he said by telephone from his ranch that he never expected this moment to come so soon. And he never thought the air around his home, which he built in the wilderness of his family ranch, an hour\u2019s drive north of Sacramento, would be this shrouded.<\/p>\n
But still, for all the fire and the smoke, Mr. Brown presented himself as the resolute chief ambassador for the state that has so long been associated with the Brown family name. He declared he was not going anywhere and dismissed the latest round of talk about people fleeing California.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou might say, \u2018We are getting out of here \u2014 we are going someplace else,\u2019\u201d Mr. Brown, 82, said. \u201cNo. There are going to be problems everywhere in the United States. This is the new normal. It\u2019s been predicted and it\u2019s happening. This is part of the new long-term experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTell me: Where are you going to go?\u201d Mr. Brown continued. \u201cWhat\u2019s your alternative? Maybe Canada. You\u2019re going to go to places like Iowa, where you have intensifying tornadoes? The fact is, we have a global crisis that has been mounting and the scientists have been telling us about. For the most part, it\u2019s been ignored. Now we have a graphic example.\u201d<\/p>\n
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