Oregon has sent firefighters to assist crews in North Carolina. The Oregon Department of Forestry says it deployed 21 firefighters to Asheville over the weekend as part of a mutual aid agreement.
The crews include firefighters from the Douglas Forest Protective Association, Coos Forest Protective Association and a variety of ODF Protection Districts including South Cascade, Western Lane and Southwest Oregon.
ODF said in a news release that it can and has called on its out-of-state partners to assist in fighting wildfires here.