Nearly 150 firefighters from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection are in quarantine due to COVID-19 infection or exposure.
, resources have been"stretched totally thin," the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection toldCal Fire President Tim Edwards said:"In the last few weeks, resources across California have been stretched totally thin."
In addition, Cal Fire's total number of inmate crews, who operate line construction around fires to contain them, have nearly halved from 99 to 45 crews, Edwards told"Right now we have 30 different fires going on in the state of California. Five of them are at over 6,000 acres, three of them are at over 10,000 acres and the rest are under 1,000 acres. We're having problems getting resources staffed appropriately to fight all these fires," he said.
"But because the fires in southern California, including in Los Angeles, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino areas, broke first, they got the majority of the resources," he said. So these areas are struggling to get their resources freed to help fight fires in the other parts of California. "We're just starting the peak of our fire behavior, so we have a long way to go and we're already stretched. In the past two weeks, guys [firefighters] have literally gone from [fighting] fire to fire to fire to fire with no break," he toldOne of the biggest threats firefighters face at the moment are the record-breaking temperatures hitting California at this time.
"With every day that goes by that they're out there longer and longer [hours], the risk of injury goes higher and higher also. Fortunately the injuries so far have not been severe. We've had burns, heat strokes, strains but nothing too severe yet.
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