Northshore Fire Protection District reported that an engine from its Upper Lake station plus three firefighters headed out Saturday as part of a strike team composed mostly of Mendocino fire personnel.

Pat Brown, a battalion chief with Northshore Fire, said this is the second time this year an Upper Lake engine has been sent to assist with an out-of-county fire.

In May, Northshore firefighters had traveled to the Santa Cruz Mountains, where they worked on the Summit Fire, which burned 4,270 acres.

That fire has been dwarfed by the Humboldt Fire in Butte County, which on Saturday had reached 23,163 acres and was 45-percent contained.

A total of 3,826 firefighters were on scene Saturday, of which 1,574 were with Cal Fire, the agency reported.

Cal Fire's Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit also had deployed firefighters to the Humboldt Fire late last week, as Lake County News reported Saturday.

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lenny - thanks guys.... Registered | 06-15-2008 10:17:44 we luv ya

angisangels Registered | 06-16-2008 20:17:57 Our prayer are with you guys. Good Job once again Northshore Fire. Thank you all for your hard work.

firecarp Registered | 06-17-2008 23:50:47 For the record, we left from Upper Lake on Thursday evening and arrived in Chico Thursday night. We spent the night in our engines then headed to the base camp at Butte College in the morning. We were on the fire line mopping up all day Friday until Saturday morning when we got to rest back at base camp. We went out on the fire line again on Sunday and were back in camp on Monday morning. We got home Tuesday around 160. 24 hours on 24 hours off. We had the pleasure of working with a great group from Mendocino County. One engine each from Hopland, Ukiah Valley, Anderson Valley and Redwood Valley. It was a lot of very hard work on some very difficult terrain. I look forward to the opportunity to represent and serve my community again in the future!

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