A strike-team comprised of local firefighters was dispatched to Southern California this morning, to help battle a wildfire that broke out yesterday(tues). The crew, made up of firefighters from Aptos, Scotts Valley, Branciforte, Zayante, and Central fire protection districts, are joined by a crew made up of Monterey County firefighters. They will add to the more than 250-fire fighters who have been called to contain the West Fire, which had burned about 14-hundred acres as of this morning. The blaze broke out yesterday, at 3:48 p.m., near the community of Old West Ranch, in Kern County (about 70 miles north of Los Angeles). 25-houses have been destroyed, and 150-more are threatened by the flames. The West Fire was about 25-percent contained, as of Cal-Fire’s last update at 8 a.m. this morning.
