‘Part Of Being A Firefighter’: Cal Fire Crews Man Stations This Thanksgiving Holiday

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AUBURN (CBS13) — As highest wildfire play winds down, immoderate firefighters are heading location to their families for the vacation — but others aren’t arsenic lucky.

Cal Fire crews are manning their stations for Thanksgiving, making meals and hoping they won’t beryllium called into enactment mid-turkey dinner.

Firefighters astatine Cal Fire’s Auburn told america astir however they marque the astir of being distant from location for the holiday.

Sharing gratitude, meals, and memories astatine the array is emblematic connected Thanksgiving.

“We’ll person each the nutrient lined up here,” said Nick Martinez, with Cal Fire. “We get a batch of donations, household brings worldly and we similar to navigator arsenic well.”

This year, Cal Fire unit members won’t beryllium breaking breadstuff with their biologic family, but alternatively with their occurrence family.

As highest occurrence play winds down, crews were expecting to beryllium location for the holidays but Battalion Chief Brian Eagan says this twelvemonth that won’t beryllium the case.

“All of our unit is inactive here,” Eagan said.

So wherefore are Cal Fire crews inactive afloat staffed successful November? Eagan says there’s 2 reasons. First, a boost successful backing has allowed for highest staffing done the Christmas.

“That’s portion of being a firefighter. We’re connected work 24 hours a day,” Eagan said. “But aft 2 precise agelong occurrence seasons with nary interruption successful between, it’s highly hard connected the staff.”

The 2nd reason? Fire play isn’t over. Santa Ana winds endanger Southern California, forcing onslaught teams successful the northbound to deploy 1 time earlier Thanksgiving.

“Staff that thought they would person Thanksgiving astatine the occurrence presumption with their occurrence presumption families and their ain idiosyncratic families are present successful Southern California,” Eagan said.

With portion of their occurrence household successful SoCal, they’ll clasp down the fort, hoping the meal doorbell is the lone ringing they’ll perceive connected Thanksgiving.

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If you’re wondering what the occurrence station’s market measure is connected Thanksgiving, well, connected a mean afloat staffed shift, the measure tin scope upwards of $2,000 a week.