With 8,000 employees and a budget of $2.5 billion, Cal Fire runs more than 900 fire stations, 343 fire engines, 58 bulldozers... It owns some 70 fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, and leases a 747 and a DC-10, ...used to drop fire retardant.https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/09/witness-californias-record-blazes-through-the-eyes-of-frontline-firefighters/ …
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“I’ve been in Cal Fire for 30 years, and we used to talk about 5,000 acres being a big fire.” The North Complex is already 50 times that size, but only the fourth largest fire this year in California.’
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