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Four firefighters were injured during a prescribed burn yesterday near Covelo, California. Firefighters from Cal Fire’s Mendocino Unit were working to reduce hazardous fuel loading when the incident within an incident occurred.
The burn started on April 27th in Northeast Mendocino county east of U.S. Highway 101. There were 1,000 acres planned to be treated in chaparral and understory vegetation within oak woodlands and mixed evergreen habitats according to Cal Fire.
Two of the injured firefighters were flown from the prescribed burn area by a REACH Medical helicopter to the Burn Institute Regional Burn Center at the University of California, Davis.
The other firefighters were taken to Adventist Health Howard Memorial hospital in Willits, California.
The conditions of the firefighters was not released by the Agency, but all four were expected to recover according to Cal Fire spokesman David Acuna.
The South Covelo Prescribed Burn was being implemented to create “a mosaic of variously burned vegetation and islands of unburned habitat,” and establish fuel breaks on the landscape. KTIYP’s
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