{"id":22799,"date":"2018-07-06T18:21:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T22:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=22799"},"modified":"2018-07-11T09:12:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T13:12:31","slug":"maryland-fire-crew-mobilized-to-combat-wildfires-out-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/07\/06\/maryland-fire-crew-mobilized-to-combat-wildfires-out-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Fire Crew Mobilized to Combat Wildfires Out West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Department Deploys First Crew of 2018 Season<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/IMG_2712.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-22822\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/IMG_2712-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Maryland Natural Resources wildland firefighter ready to deploy to western United States. \" width=\"352\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/IMG_2712-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/IMG_2712-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/IMG_2712-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/a>Maryland has dispatched a 20-person fire crew to battle wildfires in the western United States. Maryland State (MDS) #1 mobilized\u00a0July 6 at the Madonna Ranger Station in Harford County.<\/p>\n<p>The unit will join five other crews from the mid-Atlantic at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, where they will receive their assignments.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>MDS #1 consists of 17 representatives from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a>\u00a0and three volunteers from local fire departments. The wildland fire crew includes eight firefighters from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Forest Service,<\/a>\u00a0six from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Park Service<\/a>, two from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Wildlife\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wildlife and Heritage Service<\/a>\u00a0and one employee from Human Resource Service.<\/p>\n<p>The National Interagency Fire Center is the nation&#8217;s support center for wildland firefighting. The Maryland Forest Service has participated in mobilizing <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/fire\/mdfire.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildland firefighters<\/a> throughout the U.S. since 1974, as part of a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Other partners in this nationwide group include the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department Deploys First Crew of 2018 Season Maryland has dispatched a 20-person fire crew to battle wildfires in the western United States. Maryland State (MDS) #1 mobilized\u00a0July 6 at the Madonna Ranger Station in Harford County. The unit will join five other crews from the mid-Atlantic at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/07\/06\/maryland-fire-crew-mobilized-to-combat-wildfires-out-west\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,1965,3172,23,12,13],"tags":[2935,3480,3014,3279,3073,3329,3024,4503],"class_list":["post-22799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service","category-hunting","category-land","category-parks","category-wildlife","tag-harford-county","tag-madonna-ranger-station","tag-national-park-service","tag-u-s-department-of-agriculture","tag-u-s-fish-and-wildlife-service","tag-u-s-forest-service","tag-wildfire","tag-wildland-firefighters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22799"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22831,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22799\/revisions\/22831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}