CHINO, Calif. – Sequim-area firefighters were headed on Saturday toward the Harris fire southeast of San Diego.
“We will be on a 24-hour mission, mopping up burned out neighborhoods,” said Capt. Derrell Sharp in an e-mail to Clallam County Fire District No. 3 Chief Steve Vogel.
“Staging last night in El Cajon looked like an apparatus dealer convention,” Sharp said on Saturday.
“I have never seen so many fire engines.
“It has to be spread out over a 40-acre parcel of land.
Sharp said the staging area had a huge tent for briefings, several food trailers and many 30-person sleeping tents.
“It looks like a military base camp,” he said.
The firefighters will have two-week assignments on fire lines, but could remain in the area longer than that.
Also traveling from the North Olympic Peninsula were five firefighters in one fire engine from Olympic National Park.
The park firefighters arrived in Southern California on Wednesday.
