I have a couple of friends who live in areas affected by the wildfires out west. Somehow to say to my friends that what they are going through is scary beyond words feels wholly inadequate. This continues to be a devastating wildfire season for many areas in California, Oregon, and Washington. What is close to my heart as I write this is that thousands and thousands of people are scared, they may be evacuated and are wondering what they will come home to. Others are living in areas under evacuation warnings, ready to leave at a moments notice, wondering if the fire will come to their neighborhood. Wildland firefighting resources are stretched to the max, those of us in States that are able, are sending engines and crews to help the wildland firefighters work the fires. We are there to help you.
I am so proud of the New Jersey Forest Fire Service, at Governor Murphy's request, a Russian transport cargo plane transported three additional engines, a support vehicle and ten wildland firefighters to California, they arrived in San Francisco on Saturday, September 12th. They join a few NJFFS engines and crews already working in California, Nevada and elsewhere in the western U.S. Most states in the Eastern Area Coordination Center have sent engines and crews to help out west Here is a nice article from Josh Axelrod of NJ Advance Media about the deployment of NJFFS resources.
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