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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 we've had stuff filled, back filled and ready for the current mission we have going on. due to fast actions, the chief and our mutual aid entities behind us, ...

Assess when resources run out and that's 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 already staffing stations and so already immediately we've had stuff already filled and back filled r...

Area to this area to -- sorry. >> reporter: it's okay. i know this is difficult. it's been a very tough last 48 hours. >> i can't describe that. it's really hard. you got attacked from so many ways, from the sea, from the sahara, and people can get anywhere because we don't have any cars. >> reporter: we've been hearing that gadhafi forces have been going through the desert and coming around the desert and cutting in. >> we thought that's what happened last night. that's why we were sleeping in ligala area, and someone told us we have to run away because a big army was coming from the desert s...