Strike teams going home
Structure protection engines are rolling down the mountain. Fourteen strike teams are going home today.
But fire personel have actually increased to 2,505, as more hand crews are brought in.
"At first there was a big need for structural engines," said Keith Jankowski, who is with the California
Interagency Incident Management Team. "Now there's more of a need for handcrews to go up."
The focus today is on enforcing and building new containment lines on the west side of the fire near Green
Valley Lake and the south side along Highway 18 and the Arctic Circle.
The north side of the fire has little containment and firefighters hope to reach that area late in the afternoon.
As of this morning, there were 68 handcrews, 250 engines, 12 bulldozers, 33 water tenders and 18 helicopters
hard at work.