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Firefighters and other personnel from nearly 90 fire departments spanning all nine Bay Area counties are helping to battle the cascade of wildfires that have ravaged large swaths of Los Angeles over the last nearly two weeks.
That’s according to the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, or Cal OES, which oversees the state’s fire and rescue mutual aid system, aimed at ensuring that emergency units are at the ready whenever the National Weather Service issues a Red Flag Warning for extreme fire danger.
Those participating include the San Francisco Fire Department, which said it had sent 29 personnel as of earlier this week. A group of 10 firefighters from Oakland, Hayward, and Fremont, all trained in urban search and rescue, also headed to the L.A. area on Monday with the sole intent of helping to search burned areas for bodies…