{"id":28383,"date":"2019-09-09T13:36:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T17:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=28383"},"modified":"2019-09-09T17:01:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T21:01:59","slug":"maryland-wildfire-crew-deployed-to-northern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/09\/09\/maryland-wildfire-crew-deployed-to-northern-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Wildfire Crew Deployed to Northern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First Out-of-State Deployment of the Season<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48706637672_88ceeb6a41.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of wildlands firefighting crew at Madonna Ranger Station\" width=\"374\" height=\"281\" \/>Maryland has assembled and mobilized a crew of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/fire\/mdfire.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wildland firefighters<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to help battle ongoing wildfires in northern California as part of a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. It\u2019s the first out-of-state deployment for a Maryland crew this season. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 20-person crew assembled this weekend at the Madonna Ranger Station in Harford County and is departing from Harrisburg, Pa. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">today along with four other crews from the Mid-Atlantic region. The crews will receive their assignments upon arrival at a staging area in Redding, Calif.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The crew, MDS1, consists of 15 representatives from the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8211; nine from the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Forest Service<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, four from the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Park Service<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (including one retired employee) and two from the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wildlife and Heritage Service<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Additionally, there are four crew members from volunteer fire companies, and one is a former Maryland Conservation Corps member.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The department is also sending an employee this week to serve as a division supervisor at the Lime Fire in Klamath National Forest in northern California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland has participated in mobilizing certified, equipped, and fully-trained wildland firefighters since 1974.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Out-of-State Deployment of the Season Maryland has assembled and mobilized a crew of wildland firefighters to help battle ongoing wildfires in northern California as part of a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. It\u2019s the first out-of-state deployment for a Maryland crew this season. The 20-person crew assembled this weekend<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/09\/09\/maryland-wildfire-crew-deployed-to-northern-california\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"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],"tags":[3480,3329,3024,4503],"class_list":["post-28383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service","tag-madonna-ranger-station","tag-u-s-forest-service","tag-wildfire","tag-wildland-firefighters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28383","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28383"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28393,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28383\/revisions\/28393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}