Local Fire Districts Send Firefighters, Resources To Assist With California’s Massive Blazes

Authorities say roughly 34,000 people remain evacuated from wildfires in Northern California that broke out over a week ago. The number is much lower than a high of nearly 100,000 on Saturday in Sonoma, Napa and other counties. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says the death toll remains at 41 with more than 5,700 homes and structures destroyed. Elsewhere, about 150 households have been evacuated after a wildfire broke out in the Santa Cruz mountains in the southern San Francisco Bay Area.

Some 65 firefighters and seven wildland fire engines from Washington’s Department of Natural Resources are in northern California to help in the effort. And four local fire districts in our region sent firefighters to central California, as KOHO’s Chelan Correspondent Jay Witherbee reports.