NH wildland fire crew returns from Calif. fire

CAMPTON — A second crew of firefighters returned to New Hampshire last weekend, completing an assignment begun in August, when an initial crew and a Type VI firefighting engine were deployed to the Mendocino Complex incident as part of a mutual aid agreement.

Capt. John Accardi and Patrolman Wayne Howe from the N.H. Division of Forests and Lands spent two weeks supporting 20-person crews with the water needed to fight the fire and conducting prescribed fires to reduce fuels such as trees and grasses from igniting too close to a mountaintop communications site.