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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: EDIS Email Service <edismail@incident.com< X-To: EDIS-by-Email@incident.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \ExMerge - Salisbury, Holden\Inbox X-Origin: SALISBURY-H X-FileName: holden salisbury 6-26-02.PST From: Governor's Office of Emergency Services SACRAMENTO - Today, the Governor's Office of Emergency Services reports that it has pulled together the largest contingent of firefighting resources in California history since the Malibu fires of 1993. State OES has deployed firefighters from within 51 of California's 58 counties to battle this month's wildfires (see attachment). The 1,500 firefighters make up the second largest mass of firefighters deployed by OES to a single incident since the Southern California Fire Siege of October 1993. That month, OES called out 810 engines to battle 193,814 acres. This month, OES has called out 368 engines to battle more than 100,000 acres. State OES pulls together local government and state fire fighting resources through the California Fire & Rescue Mutual Aid System. The neighbor-helping-neighbor system is designed to assist the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, federal wildland fire agencies, and local departments. It is also designed to ensure that additional resources are provided to local jurisdictions whenever their resources are committed or insufficient for a fire. Today, 160 fire fighters that OES dispatched to the Ponderosa Fire in Placer County are returning to their homes in El Dorado, Contra Costa, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Yolo and Solano Counties. In all, 368 local government and State OES engines deployed by OES remain on four fires along with eight California National Guard helicopters. Those fires are: ?Creek Fire in Mariposa and Tuolumne counties at 11,565 acres, 60% contained with 211 OES and local government engines. Since the fire started 5 p.m. on Saturday it has threatened 3,000 homes. ?North Fork in Madera County at 2,710 acres, 10% contained with 10 local government engines. Since that fire started on Monday, it has destroyed two homes, and led to evacuation orders on 210 homes. ?Highway Fire in Fresno County (Sequoia National Forest), which is 1,275 acres, 0% contained, today, with 15 OES and local engines. Since the fire started at 6:45 p.m. on Sunday, it has destroyed three homes, and four out buildings. ?Leonard Fire in Calaveras County, is 3,800 acres, 30 % contained, with 90 OES and local engines. Since the fire started at 2:15 p.m. on Friday, three structures have been destroyed: 1 home and two outbuildings. Evacuations have been ordered for numerous communities. The OES Fire and Rescue Emergency Operations Center in Sacramento remains activated 24-hours a day to provide statewide coordination of fire and rescue efforts. Representatives from OES Executive, Law Enforcement, Inland Region and California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection are co-located in the Fire EOC. - OES - The following is a list of counties from which city and county firefighters have been deployed: Los Angeles and Vicinity Los Angeles County Orange County San Luis Obispo County Santa Barbara County Ventura County San Francisco Bay Area/Northcoast Alameda County Contra Costa County Humboldt County Lake County Marin County Mendocino County Monterey County Napa County San Benito County San Francisco County San Mateo County Santa Clara County Santa Cruz County Sonoma County Northern California Butte County Colusa County Lassen County Plumas County Shasta County Sierra County Siskiyou County Sutter County Tehama County Trinity County Yuba County Sacramento Valley/Sierra Nevada Amador County Calaveras County El Dorado County Nevada County Placer County Sacramento County San Joaquin County Stanislaus County Yolo County Central Valley Fresno County Kings County Kern County Mariposa County Merced County Tulare County San Diego/Inland Empire/Eastern Sierras Imperial County Inyo County Mono County Riverside County San Bernardino County San Diego County For more information contact: OES Public Affairs - (916) 262-1843 EDIS-08-22-01 1445 PDT --------------------------------------------------------- To update or terminate your subscription to this email service visit our webpage at http://www.incident.com/edismail.html. Please DO NOT reply to this message: replies may be treated as errors and result in your subscription being deleted. For non-subscription queries, email <edistrouble@incident.com<. We cannot process subscription, unsubscribe or selection-change requests via email: please use the webpage for those requests. EDIS is operated by the Governor's Office of Emergency Services, State of California. This email relay is offered by incident.com as a public service. Because of the complexity of this system and its dependence on other systems, we cannot be responsible for delays or failures in transmission. ---------------------------------------------------------
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