A hellish ‘new reality’ in Calif.

Gov grim as fires claim 1st life

Devastating wildfires are now “the new normal” for California, Gov. Jerry Brown said Saturday while touring flame-ravaged Ventura County, where officials confirmed the infernos’ first fatality.

Six large wildfires have been raging across Southern California for six days. In the past 24 hours, the fires devoured an additional 35,000 acres, bringing the total to 175,000.

So far, 800 structures have been destroyed.

With drought and climate change increasing the risk of fires, Californians must prepare for a “new reality” in which wildfire outbreaks may “be something that happens every year or every few years,” Brown said.

He called the blazes a “horror” and “terrible tragedy for so many people.”

President Trump declared a state of emergency, which permits FEMA to supplement state and local aid.

Still, Brown took a swipe at Trump, who disputes the idea of global warming.

He told CBS’ “60 Minutes,’’ “I don’t think President Trump has a fear of the Lord, the fear of the wrath of God, which leads one to more humility. . . this is such a reckless dis- regard for the truth and for the existential consequences that can be unleashed,’’ said Brown, who once studied to be a priest.

The fires may continue to rage over the holidays, according to Brown.

The state’s avocado growers were hard hit — crops worth millions of dollars are being destroyed by the fire, Daily Mail said.

Officials, meanwhile, identified the remains of Virginia Pesola, 70, of Santa Paula, who died in a car crash trying to flee from a mandatory evacuation zone.

And at least 46 racehorses were killed, according to the Los Angeles Times.