“This was the third class that we've done in the last month. We're training up our firefighters, engineers, and captains to really be proficient about putting fire on the ground, these are the backfiring operations that a lot of time can help us in our firefight,” said Cal Fire Captain and public information officer Thomas Shoots.
“The last two weeks we've seen this ramp up into peak fire season, just fire after fire, we had the Border Fire last week which was over 500 acres, two other border fires this week, the Ramona fire which burned five acres,” he said. “We're constantly working with border patrol out there, but the border is going to continue to be a dynamic area just because of the number of humans out there and the fuel loading there's plenty of grass and brush to burn,” said Shoots.
“We're at peak staffing now so we have all of our engines, hand crews, dozers, and aircraft all staffed up,” said Shoots.
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