A catastrophic series of fast-moving wildfires began burning in Southern California on January 7th. The ZDR3 team has been in contact with facilities in the region since the first day of the fires, and will stay in communication with them until the event is finished. At the time of last contact, no facilities in the region were in imminent risk or reporting high levels of need. Since firefighting teams anticipate more wind and dry conditions to continue complicating their efforts to contain the fires into next week, we will remain activated and ready to roll, if needed.

ZDR3’s 2024 response season was intense, and the work we did was quite varied. In future posts we want to tell you some of the stories of individual response teams and impacted facilities, but first, here’s an overview of everything that happened!