[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 74 (Tuesday, April 30, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H2755]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               FINDING SOLUTIONS TO WILDFIRE DEVASTATION

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, last month, a colleague and good friend, 
Congresswoman Jill Tokuda, and myself toured my district. This is post 
fire devastation of the 2018 Camp fire and how our recovery efforts are 
going 5 years later.
  It is a solemn connection Representative Tokuda and I share, as last 
August her district suffered the catastrophic Lahaina fire.
  Here we are checking out Lahaina, and here she is with me in 
Paradise, California.
  The Lahaina fire replaced the Camp fire as the deadliest one in the 
United States since at least 1910.
  Through the Bipartisan Policy Center, we were also able to visit her 
district as well at no expense to the taxpayers. Through 
bipartisanship, we worked across the aisle together and discussed 
finding solutions that work in multiple regions of the country for 
something that has plagued both our districts so viciously: wildfire.
  As my colleague Representative Tokuda and the residents of Lahaina go 
through their own recovery and rebuilding process, it is important to 
share the lessons that we learned in northern California in recovering 
from a major disaster and navigating the FEMA process. I hope these 
lessons can be learned for the benefit of her district, mine, and 
others going forward as necessary.

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