PLAINS - When three wildfires ignited along with Highway 200 corridor between Dixon and Paradise in mid-August, firefighters quickly jumped in to battle the blazes.

Nearby, local restaurants worked quickly to scramble eggs and more to feed the fire crews.

“ We saw the fire start, we knew that it was a good possibility that we would be feeding them,” Emily Sexton said. “We just wait for that call and that way we’re ready to go. We can get those guys fed, because they’re protecting all of us.”

Emily Sexton, the Em behind Em’s Cafe in Plains, was one of the locals who answered a call to help feed firefighters in the early days of the Knowles Fire.

“When a fire starts and a fire camp is being set up, the community is often asked to really help out a little bit with that. They can help in

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