A team from the Ƶ Fire Department is in its second week on the front lines of the Shelly Fire in Siskiyou County.
The firefighters left campus July 9 aboard Brush Truck 34, bound for the blaze, which started July 3 and had grown to 15,000 acres with 5% containment as of this morning (July 16), .
The fire is near the California-Oregon border.
“Due to hot dry weather and difficult access, the fire has grown and now threatens communities, private timberlands, cultural resources and wilderness areas,” Cal Fire said.
The Ƶ team deployed to the blaze is Capt. Kyle Dubs; Firefighters Chad Cunningham, Gerrit Dykzeul and Meggie Elledge. Capt. Steve Dunn is deployed as the strike team leader.
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