Following a record-setting wildfire season, governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday revealed a $536 million plan to help California prevent future fires. California’s record-breaking wildfires have consumed about 1 million acres in just the past month, according to California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Statewide, a small army of 8,000 firefighters remain on the front lines of 20 wildfires. On Friday alone, firefighters responded to nearly 40 new fires across the state.

The proposal, which comes as the rain deprived state is facing another potentially devastating round of fires, would help boost forest health, improve defensible space and protect homes against fires while also investing in fire prevention grants and workforce training. It includes vegetation management on public and private lands, community-focus prevention efforts and economic relief for the forestry economy.

Newsom in January proposed spending an unprecedented $1 billion on fire prevention and suppression in the 2021-2022 budget.“With California facing another extremely dry year, it is critical that we get a head start on reducing our fire risk,” Newsom, Atkins and Rendon wrote in a statement. “We are doing that by investing more than half a billion dollars on projects and programs that provide improved fire prevention for all parts of California.”

Newsom said he’s confident he has the votes he needs in the legislature to pass the package as early as Monday freeing him up to sign the measure Tuesday. Thursday’s measure would dispose more than half of those funds more quickly. Most of the money announced Thursday would come from the state’s general fund, with $125 million coming from the state’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Funds, but lawmakers acknowledged that more is needed and said they expect additional funding as discussions continue around the 2021-2022 budget.