Valley fire crews playing key role in Southern California firefight

LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- From onslaught teams to manus crews, hundreds of occurrence crews from crossed the Central Valley are connected the frontlines successful Southern California.

"All the firefighters present cognize that they bash their champion and they effort to clasp the line, but they cognize that the resources down them are coming. The calvary is coming," said Jay Tracy, lawman occurrence marshal for the City of Fresno.

Tracy is connected the crushed astatine the Eaton Fire, wherever he's seen full communities that person been leveled.

He says the devastation hard to grasp, but this is what firefighters person prepared for.

"There's been aggregate mentions made that our bid station is present astatine the Rose Bowl. A batch of times, we link a stadium similar that to sporting events, and it's benignant of the aforesaid successful firefighting, right?" explained Tracy.

"We bash a tremendous magnitude of training, are perpetually training, and trying to cleanable our game, but it's conscionable I consciousness similar we're astatine the Super Bowl, but it's a Super Bowl that nary 1 wants to beryllium at."

The communal assistance was captious to let remainder for occurrence crews that might've worked days successful a enactment erstwhile the fires archetypal ignited.

With occurrence conditions improving effect has present shifted distant from chiefly extinguishing flames.

Additional CAL FIRE Search and Rescue teams from the Valley person been sent successful to assistance successful the adjacent signifier of the firefight.

"It's not casual work, but it's enactment that decidedly needs to beryllium done. The guys are doing a fantastic job," said Tracy.

"We are advised they're successful the 98th percentile arsenic acold arsenic inspecting each of these homes implicit the people of the past 5 days."

Inmate crews from the Valley were besides among those connected the frontlines.

"We cannot incorporate and power these fires without them. They're decidedly a immense portion of that team," said Andrew Overbay, a battalion main with Madera County CAL FIRE.

Valley crews person been adding their unsocial expertise and enactment to the squad of thousands connected the ground.

That includes Madera County CAL FIRE Assistant Chief Justin Mccomb, who is portion of the incidental bid with the Palisades Fire.

"This is historic. It is an unfortunate and catastrophic event, but it is historic. It brings a batch of pridefulness for the vale and present successful our section portion to cognize that the enactment transferred down to assistance with Southern California."

So far, astir person not returned location yet. With the extremity acold successful sight, it's inactive unclear erstwhile we expect our section crews to instrumentality from their mission.

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