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Grass Valley Sending Strike Team to Amador County Fire

Posted: Sep. 11, 2015 11:11 AM PDT

The Grass Valley Fire Department is sending four fighters to Amador County to help fight the ‘Butte Fire’ there…

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Fire Chief Mark Buttron says he doesn’t know how long the firefighters will be gone, but earlier this summer, a strike team was sent to Trinity County, and they were gone for several days…

Listen to Mark Buttron 2

There have been about five-thousand homes evacuated, and several thousand more are without power. Buttron says a separate strike team is also being sent from Nevada County.

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