Local News

Colorado Firefighters Deploy To California's Apple Fire

August 3, 2020 / 3:51 PM MDT / CBS Colorado

click to expand

(CBS4) - Multiple Colorado firefighting agencies have sent some of their own personnel to help fight the Apple Fire burning in southern California. More than 26,000 acres have burned in the San Bernardino National Forest.

CHERRY VALLEY, CA - AUGUST 01: Flames and heavy smoke approach on a western front of the Apple Fire, consuming brush and forest at a high rate of speed during an excessive heat warning on August 1, 2020 in Cherry Valley, California. The fire began shortly before 5 p.m. the previous evening, threatening a large number of homes overnight and forcing thousands to flee before exploding to 12,000 acres this afternoon, mostly climbing the steep wilderness slopes of the San Bernardino Mountains. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Thousands of people are evacuated.

Wildland Engine 3733 has been requested to assist at the Apple Fire in California. Engine 3733 departed the Station this...
Posted by Platte Valley Fire Protection District on Sunday, August 2, 2020

Crews from Colorado include West Metro Fire, Frederick-Firestone and Platte Valley Fire Protection District.

This crew of West Metro firefighters is headed to California to help out on the #AppleFire, burning east of Los Angeles. The fire tonight is more than 20,000 acres and more than 7,000 people have been evacuated. pic.twitter.com/eepqAQ0nqv
— WestMetroFire (@WestMetroFire) August 2, 2020

As of Monday afternoon, the fire was 5% contained.