LAFD Responds to Soledad Canyon Brush Fire

Pursuant of a formal Mutual Aid Request, the Los Angeles Fire Department has assigned one Strike Team of Firefighters, one seasonally contracted Helitanker, and one Bulldozer crew to assist the Los Angeles County Fire Department and Angeles National Forest Firefighters in their battle against a brush fire in the vicinity of Soledad Canyon Road and Briggs Road near Acton, California north of our City.

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These twenty-seven personnel from the Los Angeles Fire Department have been dispatched to the "North Fire" in accordance with California's Fire & Rescue Emergency Mutual Aid System, administered by the Governor's Office of Emergency Services. The system is designed to ensure that additional resources are provided to local jurisdictions whenever their own resources are committed or insufficient for a specific emergency incident.

The City of Los Angeles remains fully protected by the use of additional staff and reserve apparatus to cover foreseeable local needs, and we remind local residents that these resources can be recalled to our City as necessary.

The men and women of the LAFD ask motorists to remain watchful for these and other convoys of emergency apparatus, and to be mindful of the space necessary for them to safely maneuver on local roads and highways.

Pursuant of protocol, official public and media information regarding this wildfire incident, including the actions of assigned LAFD personnel, will be provided by the Los Angeles County Fire Department and Angeles National Forest personnel, which maintain daily jurisdictional authority of the area where the fire is burning.

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Submitted by Brian Humphrey, Spokesman
Los Angeles Fire Department