With more than two dozen active incidents including the 56,000-acre Zogg fire in Shasta and 60,000-acre Glass fire in Napa and Sonoma, Clatsop County firefighters are returning to the front lines in California.

The Oregon Office of the State Fire Marshal mobilized Oregon firefighting resources, including Clatsop County Task Force 57, to assist with the coordinated response to California wildfires, following a request for state-to-state assistance made by California to Oregon, the fire marshal’s office reported last week.

More than 3.9 million acres have burned in California this year.

“I’m sure California firefighters are getting tired after all the fires,” Seaside Fire Chief Joey Daniels said. “Trying to relieve them if the state of Oregon is able to do it is something we always try to do.”

Of local teams, Seaside and Gearhart sent four firefighters each; Knappa and Lewis and Clark fire departments each sent three, and Astoria and Nehalem each sent two.

Seaside, Gearhart, Astoria and Knappa all dispatched apparatus to the fires, and a Seaside truck damaged when a tree fell on it during operations in August was picked up after repairs in Medford before redeployment in northern California.

Their destination is the Santa Rosa vicinity, Daniels said, but which fire specifically is uncertain.

Clatsop teams were joined by firefighters from Lane, Linn, Marion, Warren and Yamhill counties.

The state sent six task forces with equipment and personnel to join ongoing firefighting efforts.

In Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, the fire marshal reduced the level of risk to preparedness level 3, meaning a seasonal risk of potential wildland fires is normal for the time of year, and there is an adequate availability of firefighting resources and decreased fire activity in the state.

“I thank our communities and the support from everybody for wildfires this year and the response to support our agencies, all our agencies in the county,” Daniels said. “Just because these are the crews that deploy, everybody else in the county has to step up when we lose crews to respond.”