Whats up in the CCC
Updated July 19, 2008
We had a crew of 15 corpsmembers and one supervisor (C1) roll out today on July 19th to a fire called the East Basin Fire located near Carmel Valley, Close to Big Sur. The crew took off about noon today and will start their work on Sunday 8am.
We had a crew that came back from the GAP fire that was located up in Santa Barbara. The latest is that all crews should be back by Monday and be off Tuesday and resume work back on Wednesday. The crew that got back from the GAP fire will also now be going out to a new fire called the East Basin Fire. The will be leaving on Saturday July 19th. Breakfast is at 9:15am, roll call at 10am and they will be leaving at noon.
Here is a letter from the Director of the CCC on the fires going on:
Just a quick message to say how impressed and how proud I am of the incredible work that you are doing to support this truly historic effort to battle the recent wild fires. This is the biggest fire emergency the CCC has ever participated in and that almost EVERY corpsmember has served or will serve in aiding this emergency response effort. Almost 14,000 hours per day is being worked by the CCC during this event.
It’s been my pleasure of visit many of the crews at the Yuba River, American River, Canyon, Cub, Onion, Corral, BTU, SHU, Whiskeytown, Lime, Iron, Hell’s Half, Mendocino, and Soda Fires and Complexes. To those I’ve visited, it’s been my pleasure to be able to tell you face to face how much Mark Rathswohl, myself, and all of us appreciate your hard work, the long hours in the heat and smoke, the multi-week shifts, and the rapid reassignments. For those of you that I’ve not yet visited – I know you’re out there and I’ll keep trying. At every visit, your performance has received the highest of compliments and it’s clear that the entire fire suppression effort would be much the poorer without you. Directly connected to your efforts are the protection of California’s forests and other natural resources and the lives and property of our fellow Californians whom you have served with great distinction.
We would like to express our thanks to the Emergency Management Unit for their outstanding work during this effort. John Martinez and Melinda Allen have found, dispatched, tracked, documented, guided, and supported virtually every crew of the CCC. John and his team (Melinda, Scott, Amy and others) are receiving requests from USFS/CDF at an unprecedented rate and have succeeded in locating crews and overhead for every request.
Thank you again, be safe, and keep up the outstanding work.
David Muraki, Director
On Saturday at about 7pm we had a crew come back from the fires. On July 2nd at about 4:30pm we are sending this crew back out to a new fire called the GAP fire located near Goleta, CA.
In a email sent out on June 26, 2008 at about 5pm said, as of of 3pm on June 26, 2008 we have 62 crews, 768 corpsmembers, 69 staff members located at 22 incidents threw out California. This includes 64 Conservationist 1's.
On June 24th we had 3 crews leave early this morning to help out with the fires burning up in Northern California. At about 4pm we had a 4th crew leave to also help out with a different fire in Northern California.