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| May 06, 2013 | UPDATE: 200+ CORPSMEMBERS DISPATCHED TO FIRES
More CCC crews were added over the weekend, and we now have 15 crews -- 205 corpsmembers -- dispatched to fires north and south.
The largest contingent continues to provide frontline attack and logistical support on the Springs Fire in Ventura County. Three Camarillo Cal Fire crews have been joined by crews from Los Angeles, Pomona, San Diego and San Luis Obispo that are assisting with fire camp support.
The Panther Fire in Tehama County has CCC crews from Chico, Redding and Ukiah assisting with logistical support.
In Riverside County, three CCC crews are assigned to the Gorgonio Fire. The crews are from Pomona, San Bernardino and San Diego.
In Humboldt County, one crew from Fortuna is providing assistance to the U.S. Forest Service.
| | | May 03, 2013 | MORE CREWS DISPATCHED TO FIRES NORTH AND SOUTH
As of May 3, the CCC has 165 corpsmembers (12 crews) assigned to fires throughout the state, working under the direction of Cal Fire. Both initial-attack and logistical support crews have been dispatched.
Four crews are assigned to the Springs Fire near Camarillo in Ventura County. The crews are from Camarillo, Los Angeles, Pomona and San Luis Obispo.
On the Summit Fire near Banning in Riverside County, CCC crews from Camarillo, Pomona and San Bernardino are working.
And in southeastern Tehama County, CCC crews from Chico, Redding and Ukiah are providing camp support.
The CCC is one of the state's premier emergency response agencies and has additional crews available to be dispatched where needed.
| | | May 02, 2013 | 100+ CORPSMEMBERS DISPATCHED TO FIRES
More than 100 members of the California Conservation Corps have been dispatched to fires in both Northern and Southern California.
Two Camarillo fire crews and two camp support crews from Pomona and San Bernardino have responded to the Summit Fire in Riverside County.
Another Camarillo fire crew has been sent to the Springs Fire in Ventura County.
And CCC crews from Chico, Redding and Ukiah are providing logistical support on the Panther Fire in Butte County.
All of the crews are working under the direction of Cal Fire.
| | | April 12, 2013 | CORPSMEMBERS AT THE CAPITOL
Corpsmembers from the California Conservation Corps joined with members of California's 14 local conservation corps programs this week at the State Capitol. It was the annual Government Education Day, and some 100 young people from throughout the state were on hand.
After a Capitol tour, the corpsmembers had a chance to visit their legislators -- visiting 80 percent of the 120 legislative offices. They also made stops at the Governor's Office and the Natural Resources Agency. Natural Resources Secretary John Laird was among those talking with the corpsmembers about their work, career plans and reasons for joining the CCC.
The day concluded with a state budget exercise. Corpsmembers defended their budget plans in an actual legislative hearing room, making persuasive cases for their proposals.
The CCC participants attended the Government Education Day as part of the annual Corpsmember Advisory Board conference.
| | | March 12, 2013 | CCC CREW SUPERVISOR, CORPSMEMBERS ON VIRAL VIDEO
Ukiah Crew Supervisor John Griffith and Fortuna corpsmembers Antwon McCoy and Leonard Patton have put the California Conservation Corps on the map!
They're in a video, with the corpsmembers shown attempting to teach John to dance. The video has since gone viral, and was shown on NBC's Today Show Tuesday morning. The three CCCers have been interviewed for Inside Edition, with Good Morning America in the near future.
| | | March 12, 2013 | CCC CREW SUPERVISOR, CORPSMEMBERS IN VIRAL VIDEO
Ukiah Crew Supervisor John Griffith and Fortuna corpsmembers Antwon McCoy and Leonard Patton have put the California Conservation Corps on the map!
They're in a video, with the corpsmembers shown attempting to teach John to dance. The video has since gone viral, and was shown on NBC's Today Show Tuesday morning. The three CCCers have been interviewed for Inside Edition, with Good Morning America in the near future.
The short video has drawn positive comments from around the world and should give our recruitment efforts a big boost.
| | | February 15, 2013 | AUSTRALIAN WORK EXCHANGE IN FULL SWING
Nine members of the CCC are working hard Down Under, part of the Corps' annual exchange with Conservation Volunteers Australia. The corpsmembers have been working on invasive plant removal but managed to fit in a visit to a native animal preserve and see kangaroos and smaller marsupials up close.
The California crew will move on to work on other natural resource projects, but will also tour Melbourne on the weekends. They'll return home March 8.
Meanwhile, eight CVA members have spent the last two weeks based at the CCC's Ukiah Center, where projects have included work on the California coast. They'll move on to the Fortuna Center in Humboldt County after a weekend visiting Yosemite National Park.
| | | January 09, 2013 | CCC RETURNS TO EAST PALO ALTO FLOOD WORK
On Christmas Eve, CCC crews from San Jose, Watsonville, Salinas and Napa found themselves sandbagging a levee in East Palo Alto, working until 2 a.m. The corpsmembers were shoring up a levee next to San Francisquito Creek -- the overtopping of the creek had been followed by minor seepage and boils, and the evacuation of homes nearby.
On January 8, a San Jose CCC crew returned to East Palo Alto to fill more than 5,000 sandbags for the city, to be used January 9 to bolster the same creek levee.
"We've been filling them at a rate of about 1,000 bags an hour," said the CCC's crew supervisor, Anthony Roe.
California Conservation Corps crews throughout the state are trained in floodfighting techniques and ready to respond where needed. Since the CCC was created by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in 1976, the Corps has filled 3.5 million sandbags following storms and floods throughout the state.
| | | January 09, 2013 | CCC RETURNS TO EAST PALO ALTO FLOOD WORK
On Christmas Eve, CCC crews from San Jose, Watsonville, Salinas and Napa found themselves sandbagging a levee in East Palo Alto, working until 2 a.m. The corpsmembers were shoring up a levee next to San Francisquito Creek -- the overtopping of the creek had been followed by minor seepage and boils, and the evacuation of homes nearby.
On January 8, a San Jose CCC crew returned to East Palo Alto to fill more than 5,000 sandbags for the city, to be used January 9 to bolster the same creek levee.
"We've been filling them at a rate of about 1,000 bags an hour," said the CCC's crew supervisor, Anthony Roe.
California Conservation Corps crews throughout the state are trained in floodfighting techniques and ready to respond where needed. Since the CCC was created by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in 1976, the Corps has filled 3.5 million sandbags following storms and floods throughout the state.
| | | January 08, 2013 | CCC RETURNS TO EAST PALO ALTO FLOOD WORK
On Christmas Eve, CCC crews from San Jose, Watsonville, Salinas and Napa found themselves sandbagging a levee in East Palo Alto, working until 2 a.m. The corpsmembers were shoring up a levee next to San Francisquito Creek -- the overtopping of the creek had been followed by minor seepage and boils, and the evacuation of homes nearby.
On January 8, a San Jose CCC crew returned to East Palo Alto to fill 4,000 sandbags for the city, to be used January 9 to bolster the same creek levee.
California Conservation Corps crews throughout the state are trained in floodfighting techniques and ready to respond where needed. Since the CCC was created by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in 1976, the Corps has filled 3.5 million sandbags following storms and floods throughout the state.
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