nearly two months and thousands of
firefighters later the dixie fire is
closer to one million acres burn than
it ever has been . The United States
Army now stepping in there . All active
military , they all volunteered for
this assignment , Evans quo incident
commander for the east zone of the
dixie Fire says over 200 military
soldiers and personnel have now joined
the battle . We've got quite a bit of
fire activity going on , especially
with going off in that direction off to
the north and impacting a lot of values
at risk in this area , values at risk .
Short version is it's communities ,
people's towns lives . So as I said ,
your arrival is timely . Its title 10
title 32 Air Force Army .
We have everybody's in and we're trying
to put these fires out ready . Break
nessie decided bring in military
support because we were all out of
resources . Mhm .
Mhm , mm hmm . It was my
first time working with soldiers had on
fires . Super fun to work with
tons of energy , pretty motivated group
of guys and gals . Mhm .
It's important to the community to show
that the natural resource agencies ,
the U . S . Forest Service are doing
everything they can to protect the
values at risk . Mhm .
Yeah , I would describe my team as
being very motivated , ready to get to
work around it . Who
tons of challenges coming from day one
firefighters that I don't know how to
hold the tool . Just seeing where
they've gotten to with the gritting and
keeping the spacing and the mopping up .
They've come a long way from day one
they have the talk , they have the look
of , of a wildland firefighter and they
have the pride of , I'd say my overall
experience was fun , exciting to get
and and do some work and getting to
know the firefighters and their
backgrounds as well as them , getting
to know our crew . I'm just proud of
your effort , proud of House for Spirit
Head . You guys have done it right .
And this is not my first Rodeo with
title 10 hand crews . He came down here
ready to go , brought all the equipment
you were required to bring and you
really set it up fast and got out there
in the field . I just think across the
country , there's a lot more
appreciation for soldiers who sacrifice
their time and their energy and their
safety to be out here .