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About Baja California

Before becoming a state in 1953, the area was known as the North Territory of Baja California. It has an area of 70,113 km2 (27,071 sq mi), or 3.57% of the land mass of Mexico and comprises the northern half of the Baja California peninsula, north of the 28th parallel. The state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the east by Sonora, the U.S. State of Arizona, and the Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez), and on the south by Baja California Sur. Its northern limit is the U.S. state of California.

The state has a population of 2,844,469 (2005 census), and estimated 3,165,776 (June 2009) much more than the sparsely populated Baja California Sur to the south, and similar to San Diego County, California on its north. Over 75% of the population lives in the capital city, Mexicali, in Ensenada, or in Tijuana. Other important cities include San Felipe, Rosarito and Tecate.

Baja California is where it all began, our visit to Tecate in 1999 started us on our path. We began working with the city of Tecate and the Bomberos from around the state. We have been working to bring agencies representing millions of citizens in the State together for more collaborative training and operations. Where borders were distinct and rarely crossed there is now more mutual assistance and development of resources. 

In 2009, we began working with the group Bomberos De San Diego, a group of San Diego Fire firefighters that work in the area doing similar work. We partnered to bring training to Tecate initially and eventually worked in Tijuana Bomberos and were able to organize regional training at both Tecate and Tijuana inviting bomberos from around the area. Today, being one of the largest Cities in Mexico,  we regularly rely on these Bomberos to assist us in our training.

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Never a Dull Moment

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You ever have a busy day where you accomplished a lot, or finished a project, stepping back and realizing that all that work went into that and you feel you accomplished something? I think we are all feeling that as we drive back home and the things that were accomplished are already being put behind us as we move forward toward the next mission.

Arriving at Steve and Patty’s around midnight last nite after having stopped back in Mariposa for another 50 or so air paks, we drifted off to much needed sleep.

In the morning Scott and Joel took the truck and headed up to Placerville where the guys at Statin 23 helped load the last 80 scba bottles of the total 200 they donated to FFCB. A beautiful area, the Placerville guys were gracious and were very interested in our missions and what was done with the first 120 bottles picked up last week and put into service in Tecate.

While we were up in the mountains, Mark and Greg were servicing the trailer and rummaging for sustenance as we had the pickup.

Once reunited off we went to San Francisco for the day. We parked at Emeryville station 1 and took the BART (rapid transport) to San Fran. A quick walk and some seafood, we wandered back to Station 2 where Captain Marks and the crews from both stations were waiting for us with a prepared meal. Awesome firehouse cooking. We hung out and got along great. Lots of questions were asked regarding our trip and we discussed some of their trips recently taken with other agencies.

One thing cool thing we did today was extend some help to a local group called “Random Acts” which is run by an Oakland Fire Firefighter. Since we didn’t need all 80 of our bottles we offered half to their organization for use in Nicaragua. Gratefully they accepted and we will be dropping them off en route back home, possibly Thursday.

After returning back to our home in Ca, (Sacramento is 90 miles from Emeryville) I can see why they like their 48-96 schedule.

A short visit with Patti Marks and we are off to bed. We have a long drive tomorrow.

Tags: Tecate Missions

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