Firefighting activities in Butte County for Saturday, Mar. 27, 2021

Firefighting responses, training, and administrative consolidation in Butte County is all a part of this Saturday report.

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A house fire in magalia called for several engines to respond you can see here -- the fire took over one house -- when firefighters responded, the house was engulfed and three people were found.

Breathing support was called in for the victims it took around 30 minutes for fire crews to get completely knock down the fire.

No major injuries were reported.

-- the cause of the fire is still under investigation and in siskyou county -- fire crews trained for this exact thing -- a controlled house fire training took place today.

South yreka fire department, the monta-gyou fire department, yreka city fire, and the grenaduh fire department all participated in the training that took place this morning.

You can see in the photos here every firefighter in their uniform, training to fight the fire both from the inside and the outside.

Cal fire says this training is necessary -- especially with fire season right around the corner.

Butte county cal fire -- moved into its new, state-of- the-art headquarters at 176 nelson avenue in oroville.

Here's a look at the new facility.

It replaces a nearly 70-year- old compound and will allow the department to consolidate many of its operations onto one site.

Cal fire spokesman rick carhart says it's been a long process to get the headquarters here.

It's been at least a three year process, well it's been more than three years since everybody left this building and spread out throughout the county it's been more than three yearrs the headquarters are still being refurbished.

There are some buildings that can be used -- but carhart says it will be a while before everything is being used