Governor Gavin Newsom declared a statewide emergency to help ensure the availability of vital resources to combat fires burning across the state, which have been stretched thin by the effects of the historic statewide heatwave and sustained high winds. The declaration includes a mobilization of the California National Guard, to assist local agencies with the multiple ongoing emergencies. The state of emergency came not long after the non-profit corporation that controls much of California’s energy grid issued a Stage 2 Alert, saying “rotating power outages” were “imminent.”