El Dorado County Braces For Flooding After Caldor Fire

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EL DORADO COUNTY (CBS13) – There are mudslide concerns for the Caldor Fire pain scar. Special tools and radical are being brought in, conscionable successful case.

One of the tools occurrence crews person disposable is occurrence trucks with a lifted wheelbase. Helicopters are besides disposable for aerial rescues if needed.

“Pre-position instrumentality bulldozers, deep-water rescue vehicles, and enactment with section occurrence partners successful lawsuit swift h2o rescue becomes needed,” said Brian Ferguson, a spokesperson with the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES).

As portion of that process, trucks are staffed and waiting astatine adjacent occurrence stations.
They tin travel from each implicit the state.

“Is determination assets oregon instrumentality oregon unit successful a assemblage if they request to get retired and prevention people? If determination isn’t is… is determination instrumentality oregon unit that tin beryllium relocated?” said Ferguson.

Cal OES has called connected teams from the Bay Area and Central California for support. They determination successful person to areas that person occurrence scars and are much susceptible to mudslides, and flooding.

“Whether it’s their ain presumption oregon a spouse occurrence presumption — they’re not needfully connected a upland top. They’re astatine a staging basal wherever they person a spot for the firefighters to rest,” said Ferguson.

Sacramento Metro Fire Department has a squad and a conveyance to respond if needed. Firefighters are trained successful municipality and swift h2o rescue.

“Especially precocious elevations that tin accelerated make with immoderate magnitude of rain,” said Ferguson.

Sacramento Metro Fire Department says they tin respond to an exigency by land, sky, and water.

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If determination was a rescue concern wherever the h2o was higher than the motortruck they’d bring retired a boat. The availability of rescue options doesn’t regenerate staying vigilant connected exigency updates and leaving an country if it’s unsafe.