BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) - West Virginia Department of Forestry has been rotating their workers for the past 2 months.

This is all in a day's work for the men and women who work for the WV DOF.

So why are their offices missing a few workers?

It’s because the Engine 401 and rotating crews have battled wildfires in California’s Six Rivers National Forest. This includes the Butler and Dillon Fires.

Regional Forester Chris White recently returned from a similar rotation.

“I've been going for 25 years. It's always fun to go out and see different places and fight fire and different fuels and see how they do things. This year is our first time having an actual engine because most of my career has been on a hand crew where we hike in the fires. This year, we were using a type six fire engine. We ac

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