A member of the Flagler County Fire Rescue wildfire mitigation team is in California helping to battle wildfires raging in Hayfork.
Ronald Titus, 30, was deployed with a team of firefighters from the Florida Forest Service to work the “Fork Complex Wildfires.”
“It is an 18-day deployment,” Fire Rescue Chief Don Petito said. “This is the third time in his four years with us that he has gone out west to fight wildfires.”
There are currently 30 major wildfires burning in California with some 1,349 firefighters assigned to the Fork Complex Wildfires.
Titus, who lives in Palm Coast with his wife and two young children, has also been deployed to fight fires in Idaho and in the state of Washington. He was hired by Flagler County in January 2011.