Del. Firefighters Return Home after Battling California Wildfires

Another 440 soldiers and airmen from the California National Guard have also been mobilized.

As the AP noted yesterday, 200 active-duty military personnel have now been called in to join the firefight, which extends into Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.

The US Army is sending hundreds of troops to help tackle wildfires raging across parched California.

A new fire started on Tuesday morning about 6 miles northeast of Shelter Cove in the King Range National Conservation Area of southwest Humboldt County.

Crews have restored most of the power that had been lost in the region, according to Chelan County Public Utilities District. “They could hire public employees to perform tasks like garbage collection, garage work and recycling”.

At least four adults and five children were displaced, she said. Two Reserve aircraft from the 302nd Airlift Wing, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, were activated August. 3; the remaining aircraft, which joined the firefight Friday, come from the Air National Guard’s 153rd Airlift Wing, Cheyenne, Wyoming, and the 145th Airlift Wing, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Two people, including a firefighter, were treated for minor injuries.

C-130 equipped with a MAFFS system sprays retardant over a wildfire.

Veasey said he is glad to be back home safe and sound.

This, he added, is in support of the National Interagency Fire Center’s efforts to fight fires throughout Northern California.

Monday evening, more than 100 men and women from four states, including 40 volunteer firefighters from the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry, returned from their two-week rotation in Redding, California.

See information on all the current wildfires here, via CalFire.