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At approximately 0900 this morning, Multnomah County Fire Defense Board Chief, Scott Lewis, received a request from the Oregon Office of State Fire Marshal to assemble a Strike-Team of fire engines to respond to the "Camp Fire" wildfire burning in Butee County, CA. This request was made via EMAC, or Emergency Management Assistance Compact between our states.
The strike-team is comprised of a strike-team leader and trainee, (2) Portland Fire, (2) Gresham Fire and (1) Port of Portland Fire engine companies.
The strike-team departed the portland area around noon today and will travel overnight and report to base camp in Chico California, sometime tomorrow.
Potential service related functions required of the Multnomah County Strike Team includes structural preparation of impacted buildings and/or backfilling and staffing of vacated local fire stations. The strike team will be assigned to work operational periods of 24-hours on and 24-hours off if assignments involve long travel distances to reach objectives.
A maximum deployment period 14-days could be required of the strike team.
Any further inquiries on the EMAC process and other resources being sent from Oregon should be directed to OSFM at oregon.sfm@state.or.us .