Amador County – The Amador-El Dorado Unit of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is planning a live fire training exercise on two separate days next week, on a ranch at the Amador-Sacramento County line.

Cal Fire Prevention Specialist Teri Mizuhara said the media was invited to view the live fire training activities, to be conducted by the Amador-El Dorado Unit on Tuesday July 12 and again on Thursday July 14, from 9-11 a.m. on both days.

Unit Chief Kelly Keenan said “now that we have our full complement of fire fighters hired, we will hold this live fire training as a part of our continued fire fighter training program.”

Keenan said the event “serves two purposes: It is an excellent training tool for all of our personnel and it also assists a local rancher in controlling star thistle and medusa head, two species of invasive weeds that have spread onto his rangeland.”

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