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Park Fire Content for Âé¶¹´«Ã½enUPDATED: Fire Crew Returns From Park Fire
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<p><strong>Updated 1 p.m. Aug. 19, corrected 2:30 p.m. Aug. 21: </strong>Brush Truck 34 and its four Âé¶¹´«Ã½ firefighters returned to campus Thursday (Aug. 15), leaving one staffer still contributing to the fight against the Park Fire until he returned Saturday (Aug. 17).</p><p>The firefighters aboard Brush Truck 34 were Capt. Kyle Dubs and Firefighters Gerrit Dykzeul, Emmet King and Shawna Mayo; they left campus Aug. 8.</p><p>Capt. Steve Dunn returned separately, and had been serving as a strike team leader since Aug. 9.</p>August 19, 2024 - 1:00pmCody Kitaura/news/park-fire-response-2-frontsUPDATED: Firefighters Head to Park Fire
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<p><strong>Updated July 27: </strong>Personnel from the Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Fire Department were reassigned Friday from the Gold Complex Fire to the Park Fire, which currently spans Butte, Plumas, Shasta and Tehama counties. </p><p>The Park Fire began near Chico and is more than 350,000 acres with 10% containment as of today, <a href="https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2024/7/24/park-fire">according to Cal Fire</a>. That agency said the cause of the fire was arson.</p><p>At least 20 structures have been destroyed, Cal Fire said.</p>July 27, 2024 - 10:30pmCody Kitaura/news/1-fire-team-returns-another-deploys-plumas-county