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>> as far as the staffing levels and things like that, as i stated, almost immediately following the 7.1, essentially our entire battalion on the desert side was engaged on that. we had engines already engaged from that our chief had already made the phone calms to oes to get that started from outside resources, mutual aid. and the kern county fire department has already started staffing our stations and callback proceprocedures. already weve had stuff filled, back filled and ready for the curre...

Assess when resources run out and thats when you tap into that mutual aide program. can you bring our viewers in terms what the resources are looking like for the people in ridgecrest for the next 24 hours. >> as far as the staffing levels, things like that, as i stated, almost immediately following the 7.1 essentially the entire battalion on the desert side was already engaged in that and chief had already made phone calls to oes so get outside sources started mutual aide and fire department al...

Area to this area to -- sorry. >> reporter: its okay. i know this is difficult. its been a very tough last 48 hours. >> i cant describe that. its really hard. you got attacked from so many ways, from the sea, from the sahara, and people can get anywhere because we dont have any cars. >> reporter: weve been hearing that gadhafi forces have been going through the desert and coming around the desert and cutting in. >> we thought thats what happened last night. thats why we were sleeping in ligala a...