A team of Minnesota firefighters will be heading west to help battle the ongoing wildfires around Los Angeles. Gov. Tim Walz announced the state will send a crew of Minnesota DNR wildland firefighters to support the response in southern California.

The crew, which is part of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, is highly skilled and specially trained in all aspects of wildland fire impression.

The southern Minnesota community is focused on southern California. Myrna Terwedo is a St. John Lutheran Church Member who spoke to WCCO as she sewed together a large quilt. She's been watching the wildfire destruction.

Gov. Tim Walz announced that a crew of Minnesota wildland firefighters have been sent to Southern California to help fight the ongoing wildfires.

Minnesota is sending a crew of wildland firefighters from the Department of Natural Resources to support response efforts amid ongoing wildfires in Southern California. Gov. Tim Walz announced Friday that the DNR crew departed from the Minnesota Interagency Fire Center in Grand Rapids that morning.

The Minnesota team will assist with current fire response efforts and may also be called upon to help with new outbreaks

With a healthy crop of balsam fir pines growing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, northeast Minnesota is highly susceptible to a large fire, the map shows. Some of the

Minnesota will be joining the fight to put out the wildfires ravaging L.A.. Governor Tim Walz announced that Minnesota is sending a crew of wildland firefighters

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The San Antonio Spurs-Los Angeles Lakers game that got postponed earlier this month due to the wildfires in Southern California will now take place on March 17 instead. The NBA also announced on Tuesday the new date for the Milwaukee Bucks-New Orleans Pelicans matchup from last week that got postponed due to the New Orleans snowstorm.

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