OES: Prepositioning resources in South state - Santa Ana's

Dozens of Northern California Fire fighting resources headed to southern California in anticipation of Santa Ana wind events forecast starting Monday for Southern California.
Cal Fire said the preparations would also include utilizing military aircraft as well as local fire agency aircraft.
Both the Navy and Marines have been notified. The Navy said it has six helicopter's available and Marines have about 13 that could be available if needed.
The National Weather Service issued a wind warning, saying strong offshore winds are possible next Tuesday through Thursday.
Wind gusts could reach 70 mph. However this will be a "cool offshore event," with temperatures forecast to be below seasonal average."The only difference is that it's going to be 20-degrees cooler," said San Diego Fire Chief Tracy Jarman. "So the winds will be 30-45 mph with gusts up to 70 mph. That's the same circumstance we found ourselves in in the last fire storm."


Region I and VI in preparation for this weekend's Santa Ana wind event:

• CAL FIRE all days off canceled as of Monday November 19th
• 124 federal engines, 285 CALFIRE & Local Government engines
• includes 10 OES Strike teams, 10 OES water tenders & 10 LG Type 3
• Strike Teams
• 10 Local Governmen water tenders
• 21 Type 1 handcrews
• 68 Type 2 CALFIRE & Local Government handcrews
• 25 dozers
• 40 air tankers
• 21 helicopters

IMT's -
Globter's Boise NIMO Incident Management Team is mobilized on CA-OSC-0114 to Southern California with a specific location to be determined.
Southern California Incident Management Team 1 (Walker) is mobilized on CA-OSC-0120 to San Bernardino Area with a specific location to be determined.
California Incident Management Team 2 (Molumby) is mobilized on CA-OSC-0120 to Ontario CA. with a specific location to be determined

Editor: Seems some money could be saved by using contracted water tenders versus LG water Tenders? They could throw us a bone and increase local safety at the same time...