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Pacific States bought five Cat 325 excavators and five Cat 289Ds from Peterson specifically for the Camp Fire. “We rented the other ten sets from Cresco to make a total of fifteen crews,” says Van- degriff, equipment manager for Pacific States. “We’ve learned by experience that this is the ideal equipment to do the largest scope of work on these fires. Pat and Chris Smith [Cresco president] are our key guys at Cresco, and we wanted as much equipment going through them as we could for the partnership.”
The town of Paradise was split into two contracts, with a third for the unincorporated outlying area.
Top down: The 2020 fire season saw 4.3 million acres burn in CA, versus the second worst season total (2018) of 1.9 million acres; Argonaut did the clean up on the north side of Paradise; SPSG (Sukut–Pacific States–Goodfellow Bros.) did the south side of town.
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