Maryland Firefighters Trained To Deal With Wildfires

The military is sending in four specially-equipped planes to help fight the fire in Arizona. While firefighters in Maryland don’t have to deal with wildfires on that scale, they still have to train at the same level as hotshot crews.

Wildfires in Maryland are rare, and much smaller than those in the desert southwest, where 19 members of the elite firefighting crew were killed.

Monte Mitchell is the state fire supervisor with the Maryland DNR forest service. He says while Maryland doesn’t have state-level hotshot crews, firefighters are trained with the same skills and to the same level.
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