The San Jose Fire Department normally aids other departments when needed in an emergency. However, the recent wildfires have firefighters exhausted and spread thin on resources.

Such is the case of San Jose Fire Station #2 which helped battle the Creek Fire in Central California. Back home in the South Bay, they respond to all the fires in the San Jose East Foothills.

But now, the department has to look deeper to make sure they can help if another area calls for it.

The department says total of 32 San Jose firefighters are spread out throughout California helping others and that another mutual aid call could be difficult to fill while maintaining enough firefighters to respond to local threats.

The SJFD remains on high alert as the South Bay remains under a Red Flag Warning and heat ad

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