From: Governor's Office of Emergency Services

Agency has deployed 130 engines to fire lines

SACRAMENTO - The Governor's Office of Emergency Services is working
day and night at its headquarters and in the field to rapidly deploy
additional fire crews to the Northern California fire lines.

As of now, OES has dispatched 130 state OES and local government
engines to battle numerous stubborn  blazes including the Emigrant
Gap fire in the Tahoe National Forest near Interstate-80.

At OES Headquarters, resource requests are being managed by the State

Emergency Operations Center and the Inland Region Emergency
Operations Center, which have been activated. Fire & Rescue, Law
Enforcement, Telecommunication, and Operations staff of OES are all
active in this effort at headquarters and in the field.

Emigrant Gap Fire is one of more than seven Northern California fires

being closely monitored by OES. Combined, the fires have burned
approximately 107,000 acres. All fires combined bring the total
OES-coordinated response to 26 fire engine strike teams working
107,000 acres (see chart for participating cities and counties)
alongside other local, federal and state agencies. 

The local and state-owned equipment has been dispatched through
California's Fire and Rescue Mutual Aid System, administered by OES,
to assist the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection,
and federal wildland fire agencies, and local departments.  The
system is designed to ensure that additional resources are provided
to local jurisdictions whenever their own resources are committed or
insufficient for any fire or rescue operation.

Each strike team consists of five fire engines - with three to four
firefighters per engine - and one strike team leader per team. 
	
Four of the seven fires are being battled by local firefighters
called to duty by OES under the Mutual Aid system:

 
EMIGRANT GAP FIRE
(20 miles west of Truckee in the Tahoe National Forest)

1 Strike Team of five OES engines from:
Grass Valley
Woodland
Delta Fire Protection District in Rio Vista
Folsom 
City of Sacramento

1 OES Satellite Communication Trailer
1 OES Satellite Unit

12 Strike Teams made up of 60 Local Government Engines from:
1 Calaveras County	(5 engines)
1 Colusa and Yuba counties (5 engines)
1 Nevada County (5 engines)
2 Placer County 	(10 engines)
2 Tahoe Basin		(10 engines				     

  
from California and Nevada)
2 Sacramento County	(10 engines)
1 San Joaquin County	(5 engines)
1 Stanislaus County	(5 engines)
1 El Dorado County	(5 engines)

MODOC COMPLEX FIRE
(near Alturas)
2 Strike Teams made up of 10 Local Government Engines from:
Alameda County Team (5 engines)
Oakland
Berkeley
Alameda County
Livermore
Livermore Lab
Sonoma County Team (5 engines)
Cazadero
Cloverdale
Gold Ridge
Coast Guard at Two Rock
City of Sonoma 
BLUE FIRE
(U.S. Highway 395 near Likely)
5 Strike Teams made up of 25 Local Government Engines from:
Sutter County	(5 engines)
Stanislaus County(5 engines)
Nevada County	(5 engines)
Shasta County	(5 engines)
Tulare County	(5 engines)

OBSERVATION FIRE 
(U.S. 395 near Termo)
Three Strike Teams made up of 14 OES Engines
Shasta County
Weaverville
Tehama
Mt. Shasta
Quincy
Loyalton

Sutter County
Yuba City
Willows
Ft. Bragg
Colusa
Eureka

Solano County
Solano County
Benicia
Valley of the Moon
Suisun
California Medical Facility in Vacaville

1 OES Satellite Unit




For more information contact:
Eric Lamoureux at (916) 262-1843

EDIS-08-14-01 1634 PDT


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