{"id":165421,"date":"2023-08-17T09:49:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=165421"},"modified":"2023-08-17T10:02:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T17:02:33","slug":"california-sends-wildfire-response-and-recovery-teams-to-hawaii-and-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=165421","title":{"rendered":"California Sends Wildfire Response and Recovery Teams to Hawaii and Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;California is deploying 201 specialized personnel, 25 vehicles, and more resources to help our neighbors in Hawaii and Oregon.\u00a0 Following <a href=\"https:\/\/mclist.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=afffa58af0d1d42fee9a20e55&amp;id=48c4cbe20d&amp;e=4445b5a765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">action<\/a>\u00a0last week to support Hawaii, Governor Gavin Newsom announced the deployment of additional wildfire recovery personnel to Hawaii as well as wildland fire strike teams to Oregon to help battle ongoing wildfires.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-165422\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/3e7c63cc-bfc5-80fc-5093-2e651154cb48.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/3e7c63cc-bfc5-80fc-5093-2e651154cb48.png 624w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/3e7c63cc-bfc5-80fc-5093-2e651154cb48-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/3e7c63cc-bfc5-80fc-5093-2e651154cb48-86x54.png 86w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/3e7c63cc-bfc5-80fc-5093-2e651154cb48-570x363.png 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>\u00a0<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>WHAT GOVERNOR NEWSOM SAID:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve been in close contact with our neighbors in Hawaii and Oregon as they deal with these devastating wildfires, and they know that California has their back \u2013 we\u2019re doing everything we can to help.\u201d<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>\u00a0<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>HAWAII:\u00a0Governor Newsom instructed his Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) to coordinate the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mclist.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=afffa58af0d1d42fee9a20e55&amp;id=195184bcb8&amp;e=4445b5a765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">deployment<\/a>\u00a0of 101 state and local government personnel in total to Hawaii:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>69-member Incident Management Team from CAL FIRE (67 members) and Cal OES (2 members) to support overall incident management;<\/li>\n<li>Three Cal OES wildfire debris removal and hazardous waste experts;<\/li>\n<li>One Cal OES recovery professional in maximizing community-based federal funding;<\/li>\n<li>One Cal OES Fire and Rescue personnel specialized in urban search and rescue\u00a0(US&amp;R);<\/li>\n<li>One Cal OES mass fatality incident management expert;<\/li>\n<li>12 US&amp;R Task Force members;<\/li>\n<li>10 local government K-9 teams;<\/li>\n<li>Four forensic anthropologists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mclist.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=afffa58af0d1d42fee9a20e55&amp;id=34759ccc47&amp;e=4445b5a765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/afffa58af0d1d42fee9a20e55\/images\/3e7c63cc-bfc5-80fc-5093-2e651154cb48.png\" width=\"520\" height=\"330\" data-imagetype=\"External\" data-file-id=\"7044455\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>OREGON:\u00a0As multiple wildfires continue to burn across the west slope of the Cascades in Oregon, Governor Newsom directed Cal OES to deploy five firefighting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mclist.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=afffa58af0d1d42fee9a20e55&amp;id=7b57845a31&amp;e=4445b5a765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\">strike teams<\/a>\u00a0to provide additional capacity as firefighters battle the Lookout and Bedrock fires:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>25 engines and 100 personnel are deploying to Oregon from Alameda, San Mateo, San Bernardino, Riverside, and San Diego counties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mclist.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=afffa58af0d1d42fee9a20e55&amp;id=98a8d63ed8&amp;e=4445b5a765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/afffa58af0d1d42fee9a20e55\/images\/eb3c7a76-bc6f-0d2a-06b9-533e1a8e8a78.png\" width=\"520\" height=\"250\" data-imagetype=\"External\" data-file-id=\"7044451\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Last year, California deployed firefighters, disaster recovery experts and other personnel to Oregon,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mclist.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=afffa58af0d1d42fee9a20e55&amp;id=5098c30042&amp;e=4445b5a765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"5\">New Mexico<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mclist.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=afffa58af0d1d42fee9a20e55&amp;id=71289d9198&amp;e=4445b5a765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"6\">Montana<\/a>. In 2021, California sent firefighting equipment and personnel to assist Oregon\u2019s response to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mclist.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=afffa58af0d1d42fee9a20e55&amp;id=bee5d9be34&amp;e=4445b5a765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"7\">Bootleg Fire<\/a>.<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>This request for aid comes through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mclist.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=afffa58af0d1d42fee9a20e55&amp;id=98f30cda05&amp;e=4445b5a765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"8\">(EMAC)<\/a>, a national inter-state mutual aid agreement which allows states to request and send personnel, equipment and commodities to assist with response and recovery efforts in other states.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;California is deploying 201 specialized personnel, 25 vehicles, and more resources to help our neighbors in Hawaii and Oregon.\u00a0 Following action\u00a0last week to support Hawaii, Governor Gavin Newsom announced the deployment of additional wildfire recovery personnel to Hawaii as well as wildland fire strike teams to Oregon to help battle ongoing wildfires. \u00a0WHAT GOVERNOR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","category-traffic-fire","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/3e7c63cc-bfc5-80fc-5093-2e651154cb48.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165425,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165421\/revisions\/165425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}