Several fire departments in Southern California have deployed crews to assist with wildfires in New Mexico as wildfires ravage the state.
On Thursday, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency activated the teams ahead of their planned weekend departure.
The crews were sent to help search for victims after the South Fork and Salt Fires combined burned more than 23,000 acres, damaged more than 1,400 homes and other buildings and forced more than 8,000 people to flee their homes.
Along with the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s K9 Human Remains Detection team, which consisted of Fire Captain Celina Serrano with K9 Prentiss and fire paramedics Nicholas Bartel, Edward Ruiz and Jonathan Mungia with K9s Six, Harper and Clifford, teams from the Los Angeles County Fire Department Angeles, Orange County Fire Authority and Riverside County Fire Department were sent to New Mexico.
