Portland-area firefighters return home after weeks fighting California fires: ‘I’m proud of Oregon’
Pezzulo and the other Multnomah County firefighters returning home on Saturday were part of 21 strike teams of 370 firefighters that Oregon State Fire Marshal Mariana Ruiz-Temple sent to California in January — the largest out-of-state deployment that the agency has sent in Oregon’s history, the Oregon State Fire Marshal said in a statement.