Fires result in evacuations your daily Residents in parts of Yuba County foothills forced to evacuate Tuesday afternoon briefing
Wildfires continue to ravage the state, with over 2.2 million acres burned so far in 2020 – as of Tuesday, nearly 14,000 firefighters were battling 25 major wildfires across California, according to Cal Fire.
The Yuba County Sheriff ’s Office issued a mandatory evacuation order on Tuesday afternoon for parts of the foothills – residents in the area of La Porte Road and New York Flat Road, north of Brownsville to the county lines at Butte and Plumas – due to a wildfire pushing toward Yuba County. Communities impacted included Forbestown, Woodleaf, Clipper Mills and Strawberry Valley.
The state is currently under a Red
in the back depending on what the call is.
“Main job for this one is protection of the city, but there could be a circumstance that we could get called – for a type one strike team immediate need for structure protection or whatever – that this could potentially go out in the mutual aid system,” Hall said.
The department’s assistance on out of county strike teams responding to wildland fires throughout the state helped pay for the new engine, according to Captain Kevin Pohley.
“This is being paid for by revenue that we generate when we go on out-of-county strike teams,” Pohley said. “... The state reimburses us for personnel and then they give us a fee for our equipment. Basically they pay for the people and they’re renting the equipment. We financed it so every year when we go out we save that money then it covers the payments and before we purchased it we had a few years ahead.”
Pohley was part of the group that helped design the engine. Pierce engines are customizable to fit the needs of the station ordering the engine.
“It’s built specifically for this small historic city,” Pohley said.
The old Engine 212 will still be used as a reserve engine for the department, according to Hall.
Ballistic vests for mass casualty events, water rescue gear, and rope rescue gear still need to be moved from the old engine to the new one.