Crew Spent Two Weeks Helping to Contain Chiwaukum Creek Complex Wildfires

Crew Members Available To Talk To Media upon Their Return

WHO: The New York crew including rangers, employees and volunteers across the state, DEC Assistant Commissioner, Office of Natural Resources, Kathy Moser

WHAT: A 20-member New York firefighting crew that traveled to Washington State to assist in the containment of the Chiwaukum Creek Complex wildfire will return to New York. The crew, comprised of DEC forest rangers, employees and volunteers had been working to contain the 19,000 +acre wildfires outside Leavenworth, Washington for the past two weeks.

WHERE: Saratoga Tree Nursery, 2369 Route 50 South Saratoga Springs, 12866

WHEN: Today, August 11, 11:00 a.m.