San Francisco is sending nearly two dozen firefighters to Southern California to aid crews responding to the series of destructive blazes tearing through the Los Angeles area.
Twenty-two San Francisco Fire Department personnel — 20 firefighters and two chiefs — left for Los Angeles around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to San Francisco Fire Department spokesperson Lt. Mariano Elias.
“This is what we train for,” Elias told The Examiner. “The mission of any fire service across the country is to protect life, property and environment. That’s what our members are going to do.”…