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Help is flowing into the Los Angeles fire zone—including from Tucson. Now a man with deep experience with fire and disasters is headed to L.A. as a Red Cross volunteer. Randy Ogden is heading into a dangerous world he knows very well. As fires rip through Los Angeles he’s thinking of the people losing so much to the flames.“Their homes are gone, their personal effects, you know, their wedding pictures, their jewelry, keepsakes from their toddler.
His drive to help when disaster strikes sent him to New York after 9/11. There he helped recover the victims from the tower collapse.“We lost 343 brothers in the fire service. I just thought it was important to be there to lend support. I also did Israel, the arson fires there several years ago. That was just a whole different deployment.”He will not be leading firefighters In Los Angeles.
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