The state has deployed significant resources to fight the approximately 6,500-acre Pickett Fire in Napa County.
1,200+ personnel, 140 engines, 34 dozers, and assets from California's aerial fighting fleet — the world's largest — are deployed.
Please initiate a policy to have wildland firefighters wear masks (smoke) and protect their future lives. They may resist, but we owe them this change. Apparently Europe’s firefighters have learned how to use them and it helps. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Why firefighters are facing toxic smoke with little to no protection
At the height of wildfire season, thousands of firefighters regularly face a host of dangers on the frontline, including confronting toxic smoke. As seasons grow longer and more intense, the health of...
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