Connecticut Fire Crew to Help Battle Raging California Wildfire

A crew of 20 Connecticut firefighters is heading to northern California to help rein in a wildfire that has ravaged 60,000 acres, prompting the governor to declare a state of emergency.

Ten trained and certified Department of Energy and Environmental Protection staff members and 10 local firefighters will leave the DEEP Eastern District Headquarters in Marlborough early Tuesday morning.

Crew members will travel to the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in New Hampshire, where they will then board a plane bound for the West Coast. The crew will join the U.S. Forest Service in battling the Rocky Fire, which has forced hundreds of evacuations and threatened thousands of homes.

Connecticut firefighters were last deployed to California in August 2014.

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