Marines from Camp Pendleton quickly train to help with Creek Fire nearing Mammoth Lakes

Marines and sailors at Camp Pendleton got a crash course on wildland firefighting.
“Normally, we do two weeks of training, but we consolidated that into two days,” said Isaac Tzintzun, a Bureau of Land Management wildland firefighter. “We’ll do two more days when we get up (to the Creek Fire), and then we’ll be on the fireline.”
Marines and sailors with the 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, practice using