Ten crews from Montana are staged halfway between San Diego and Los Angeles on standby, which is an important role in case new fires break out.

Montana firefighters have been assisting California in their efforts to distinguish the blazes. The Montana DES coordinates the aid to other states, and can accept it to our own.

MONTANA - Firefighters from Montana are heading to California to assist in battling the intense wildfires raging in the state.

Nearly a dozen Montana fire departments have headed down to the Golden State to help fight wildfires in Los Angeles that have killed at least 24 people and displaced thousands of others.

Multiple Montana fire departments are sending crews and engines to California to help fight four fast-moving wildfires.The crews that shared plans to head to Ca

That route is the Big Sky North Coast Corridor which would run through southern Montana. This route, formerly known as the North Coast Hiawatha — which ended operations in the late 1970s — is being recommended to be restored with the hopes that it will bring Amtrak service to Billings, Bozeman, Helena, Butte and Missoula.

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Montana firefighters aiding California trough mutual aid system

MONTANA - Firefighters in Los Angeles are hoping for a break on Friday from the fierce winds fueling massive fires that have killed at least 10 people and leveled neighborhoods.

A horseback rider was transported by helicopter to an waiting ambulance after they suffered an injury on the Hazard Canyon Trail in Montaña de Oro State Park. On Friday afternoon, the CHP, Cal Fire SLO, California State Parks and San Luis Obispo Ambulance responded to the incident in a multi-agency effort.

President Biden in 2022 announced Admiral Linda Fagan as the new commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard making her the first woman to lead a branch of the U.S. military. President Trump's administration has now fired Fagan.

Montana firefighters have been assisting California in their efforts to distinguish the blazes through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact.