If you frequent Sacramento’s Discovery Park, you can expect to see Sacramento Fire Department crews training all this week for wildfire season. Firefighters are taking over the archery range to complete their annual wildland training. Officials with the department said the training is mandatory for crews to be able to fight fires outside of county lines, per state requirements.By the end of the day Friday, Capt. Justin Sylvia said the entire department will have finished the training. That’s about 700 people.The training couldn’t come at a better time, especially after the region’s historically wet winter. “I’m just seeing these really hot forecast temperatures coming up,” Sylvia said. “Without any water on the ground now like we’ve had in recent months, these fuels are very large, and they’re going to dry out very quickly.” He said it is going to be a “very high hazard fire season” due to all the vegetation that grew after the unprecedented rainfall earlier this year. The training in Discovery Park this week isn’t just for wildfires outside the county. It will also help Sacramento fire crews fight fires at the American River Parkway.Sylvia said the department responds to many human-caused fires in the American River Parkway during the summer season. Many are due to cooking fires or combustible materials by people living inside the parkway.As temperatures begin to climb, officials ask anyone who frequents the river to call 911 immediately if they see smoke. If you are at the parkway while crews are responding to a fire, please leave emergency vehicles room on bike paths, roads, and sidewalks to quickly get to the blaze.
If you frequent Sacramento’s Discovery Park, you can expect to see Sacramento Fire Department crews training all this week for wildfire season.
Firefighters are taking over the archery range to complete their annual wildland training. Officials with the department said the training is mandatory for crews to be able to fight fires outside of county lines, per state requirements.
By the end of the day Friday, Capt. Justin Sylvia said the entire department will have finished the training. That’s about 700 people.
The training couldn’t come at a better time, especially after the region’s historically wet winter.
“I’m just seeing these really hot forecast temperatures coming up,” Sylvia said. “Without any water on the ground now like we’ve had in recent months, these fuels are very large, and they’re going to dry out very quickly.”
He said it is going to be a “very high hazard fire season” due to all the vegetation that grew after the unprecedented rainfall earlier this year.
The training in Discovery Park this week isn’t just for wildfires outside the county. It will also help Sacramento fire crews fight fires at the American River Parkway.
Sylvia said the department responds to many human-caused fires in the American River Parkway during the summer season. Many are due to cooking fires or combustible materials by people living inside the parkway.
As temperatures begin to climb, officials ask anyone who frequents the river to call 911 immediately if they see smoke.
If you are at the parkway while crews are responding to a fire, please leave emergency vehicles room on bike paths, roads, and sidewalks to quickly get to the blaze.
