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| Fire crews from Utah County arrive in California. Photo via Facebook |
By David Kennard
PROVO -- Firefighters from Utah County are part
of the 28,000 working to extinguish the 66 wildfires burning across
the West.
The Utah County Fire Department has
crews and equipment battling the Mad River Complex near Redding in
Trinity County, Calif.
The fire has burning 36,055 acres and
is 68 percent contained, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
The Utah County firefighters aren't the
only “foreigners” working on major fires in the West. Officials
said today that 68 firefighters from Australia and New Zealand have
been deployed to incidents in Oregon and Washington.
To date, nearly 1.7 million acres have
burned in the last few weeks as extremely hot and dry weather has
moved into the western states.
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