A trio of East Pierce Fire and Rescue firefighters have been deployed to southern California to fight one of the several fires in the state.

Lt. Doug Babcock, firefighter/paramedic Vance Mettlen, and firefighter/paramedic Rex Orcutt were officially deployed Sunday, Nov. 11 at 7:40 a.m., and planned to join up with other firefighters in their region along the route.

“For a fire like this, our guys just want to go and help,” said Fire Chief Bud Backer.

The firefighters were originally set to be deployed into northern California to fight against the Camp Fire in that started Nov. 8 in Paradise, CA. That fire has spread to more than 110,000 acres and have left 29 people dead and 6,400 homes destroyed, according to the New York Times, making this fire tied as the most deadly in state history with the 1933 Griffith Park fire in Los Angeles.

Officials have said the fire is 25 percent contained.

Instead, the firefighters were rerouted Saturday to the southern California Woolsey Fire in the Malibu/Thousand Oakes area, which began shortly after the Camp Fire.

More than 90,000 acres and 370 structures have been burned, and two bodies found. Officials said the fire is 20 percent contained as of today.

Out-of-state fire deployments happened occasionally for East Pierce, but have been happening more in recent summers, Backer said, and that the typical deployment timeline is two weeks, but their stay could be extended if firefighters have trouble containing the fires.

Backer added his sister-in-law was one of the hundreds of thousands that have been evacuated from their homes over the past week, but her area was yet untouched by the destruction.