A wonderful blessing from you fellow warrior. We can all do this together! No matter what it takes or what the outcome! ???
Highest thoughts, prayers, blessings to your friend and all in any threats of being harms way ???
"New York(CNN Business)Joe Rogan, reportedly the highest paid podcast host in the world, has apologized for spreading misinformation to his millions of listeners about the West Coast fires during a recent episode.
"I need to make an apology and a retraction," Rogan said in a video posted on his Instagram on Friday.
"I said something on the podcast with Douglas Murray about people getting arrested for lighting fires and I got duped. It's wrong.
There was one guy who got arrested for lighting fires somewhere else and someone sent me something about people getting arrested for lighting fires in Portland. I said it without looking into it. It was very irresponsible."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/media/joe-rogan-apologizes/index.html
This kind of "mistake" is how many, many, many conspiracy theorists have used news sources for their claims on social media that Antifa and other groups were lighting the fires that hit our areas of the Santiam Canyon Wildfires (Beachie Creek hitting Lyons, Mehama and North Fork areas) and the Lionshead Fires hitting Gates, Idanha Mill City and Detroit Lake communities.
And also circulating on Facebook and Twitter one reporter reading about BLM Fires which in Oregon most commonly means Bureau of Land Management and assuming BLM meant "Black Lives Matter' and saving that the protesters had started the wildfires.
Just ridiculous how the social media gossip game has played out and done misinformation harm here in Oregon!
@michele-b Well it is refreshing to hear someone say they were wrong. I don't know the guy, in spite of his being so famous, but I will take a retraction on fake news any time. Hope that lesson is learned on his part, and his readers.
A new fire has erupted in Napa, now updated to 1,000 acres. 2,000 have been evacuated .
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/early-morning-napa-county-fire-grows-to-800-acres/
A timely reminder that California is now entering Diablo season in the north and Santa Ana season in the south, which poses fresh new wildfire risks.
The August complex fire in northern California just became the first ever 'gigafire' in modern history, meaning that it has burned through 1 million acres:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/06/california-wildfires-gigafire-first
Over 50,000 are without power in California after Pacific Gas & Electric began shutting power to customers due extreme wildfire risk. High winds and dry hot temps are forecast.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/15/california-power-cuts-heatwave-pg-and-e
I live along the Front Range in Colorado and we've been enduring smoke from a wildfire that's been going on for over 2 months and has become the biggest in our state's history. It's very tiring. We used to have the bluest skies; now it's smoke and haze almost daily.