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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      A firefighter puts out a fire with a hose.200820-F-UO290-1266
                        
                        
                        Airman 1st Class Ryan Girouex, 60th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighter, extinguishes a fire on a shed on Soaring Eagle Trail in Vacaville, California, Aug. 20, 2020. The 60th CES loaned 28 personnel and five trucks to aid in the fight against the LNU Lightning Complex Fire, a cluster of fires that forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes. (U.S. Air Force photo by Nicholas Pilch)
                
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                        Airman 1st Class Ryan Girouex, 60th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighter, extinguishes a fire on a shed on Soaring Eagle Trail in Vacaville, California, Aug. 20, 2020. The 60th CES loaned 28 personnel and five trucks to aid in the fight against the LNU Lightning Complex Fire, a cluster of fires that forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes. (U.S. Air Force photo by Nicholas Pilch)
                
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                        Staff Sgt. James Muncy, 60th Civil Engineer Squadron crew chief, puts out burning embers near a residence on Gibson Canyon Road in Vacaville, California, Aug. 20, 2020. The 60th CES loaned 28 personnel and five trucks to aid in the fight against the LNU Lightning Complex Fire, a cluster of fires that forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes. (U.S. Air Force photo by Nicholas Pilch)
                
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                        Airman 1st Class Ryan Girouex, left, and Airman 1st Class Brandon Orea, both 60th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighters, walk back to a firetruck after extinguishing a fire on a shed on Soaring Eagle Trail in Vacaville, California, Aug. 20, 2020. The 60th CES firefighters aided local fire departments in fighting the LNU Lightning Complex Fire, a cluster of fires that forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes. (U.S. Air Force photo by Nicholas Pilch)
                
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                        Paul Dahlen, 60th Civil Engineer Squadron fire inspector and a Vacaville Fire Protection District volunteer firefighter, guides Dave Silva, 60th CES fire truck engineer, through a driveway off Steiger Hill Road in Vacaville, California, Aug. 20, 2020. The 60th CES firefighters aided local fire departments in fighting the LNU Lightning Complex Fire, a cluster of fires that forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes. (U.S. Air Force photo by Nicholas Pilch)
                
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                        Firefighters from the 60th Civil Engineer Squadron and the Vacaville Fire Protection District take a break Aug. 20, 2020, at Vacaville Fire Protection District Station 64, Vacaville, California. The 60th CES firefighters aided local fire departments in fighting the LNU Lightning Complex Fire, a cluster of fires that forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes. (U.S. Air Force photo by Nicholas Pilch)
                
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Travis AFB firefighters help community battle Solano wildfiresPublished Aug. 26, 2020
                    
                    By Nicholas Pilch
                    
                    
                    60th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs
            **TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFNS) --**Airmen from **Travis Air Force Base**’s 60th Civil Engineer Squadron responded to the LNU Lightning Complex fire to support the Vacaville Fire Protection District’s firefighting effort, Aug. 19.
The fire started in Napa, California as the result of a lightning storm, and quickly spread through the area to Vacaville and Fairfield ­­– both of which border Travis AFB. Tens of thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes in Napa and Solano counties through the duration of the day.
In the early hours of Aug. 19th, Travis AFB initially dispatched a four-person crew to the Cherry Glenn area to safeguard homes. Over the course of the next 48 hours, the base dispatched 28 firefighters with **Beale AFB** contributing an additional eight firefighters, four from a specialty wildfire unit. The 36 firefighters were dispatched to 10 locations.
“A lot of the fire was not directly near the road,” said Kevin Bouillon, 60th CES battalion chief. “The crews had to connect hoses together that reached as long as a thousand feet because the fire needed to be extinguished.”
The 60th CES dispatched five trucks in total, one normally being a specialty truck used to put out fires on aircraft.
“Containing the fire is difficult because winds shifted later in the day,” said Staff Sgt. James Muncy, 60th CES crew chief. “Trees were falling, and various fires were reigniting.”
Muncy also said the fire needed as much containment as possible, so more crews dispatched from Travis AFB.
Ricardo Campos, 60th CES captain, and his crew were initially dispatched near Interstate 80; however, they were re-routed to prevent the destruction of a neighborhood near Sales Lane in Fairfield.
“If the fire broke through, there it would’ve been possible for that fire to take out acres of land passing through those residences and would destroy possibly hundreds of acres of residential homes past it,” Campos said.
As of Aug. 21, firefighters from across the county are actively trying to contain the fire in Napa and Solano counties.
“A fire this size, there is no way you can contain it in a day,” said Bouillon. “The ongoing relationship with the local stations allows us to assist in working a fire like this.”LR 



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