After the state of Utah received an official request from California for assistance with its raging wildfires, multiple agencies within Utah County answered the call.

Fire departments from Provo, Woodland Hills, Lone Peak, North Fork, Orem and Utah County each sent crews to Southern California, where five separate wildfires are raging, including the large Palisades and Eaton fires that are impacting populated areas of Los Angeles County.

Kelly Bird, public information director at the United Fire Authority, said the state sent 15 engines responding from three different task forces across 17 agencies, for a total of 64 personnel. Many members of the task force left Thursday morning from the Maverik Center parking lot in West Valley City.

As of Thursday afternoon, Bird said which fire each task force will go to is to be determined.

“What’s going to happen is we’ll all come, there’s a check-in process, and once we get through all that, they’ll begin to make assignments for the three different task forces that we have coming,” he said. “So we could potentially stay together, we could be spread out, but we don’t know where they’re going to assign us.”

Of the departments in Utah County, Provo was the first to leave, departing at 6 p.m. Wednesday with four certified wildland firefighters and a brush truck, according to Provo Fire & Rescue Capt. Jeanie Atherton.

Woodland Hills Fire Chief Ted Mickelsen said his four-man crew left Thursday morning as part of the state’s Task Force 3. He said his crew is assigned to fight the Palisades fire, which has burned over 17,000 acres and destroyed over 1,000 structures.

“We’re glad to go help out our neighboring states, whenever they’re in trouble,” Mickelsen said.

Utah County announced Thursday afternoon that it sent out a crew of four wildland fire experts in a Type 3 fire engine. That crew includes a battalion chief, two captains and a firefighter. The same crew had recently returned from a two-week deployment to the Cleveland National Forest in Southern California on Jan. 6.

“Utahns always step up to help, and we’re doing it again,” Utah County Commissioner Skyler Beltran said in a release. “California is facing significant devastation, and Utah County Fire Chief Patrick Carlson and Utah County are proud to offer aid. We pray for the safety of our firefighters as they serve in this crisis.”

Lone Peak Fire in Highland sent one firefighter, who is a part of a task force, while North Fork, which covers the Sundance area, sent an engine and four crew members.

North Fork Chief David Marsella said the convoy that left from the Maverik Center came together thanks to the Emergency Management Assistance Compact and was coordinated through the state’s emergency management department.

However, he said the North Fork crew coordinated through the Interagency Resource Ordering Capability and is traveling to California individually.

“There’s four or five other engines that are coming, just through the other system, that are going individually that will get assigned probably in the next couple hours,” Marsella said Thursday afternoon. “Their orders were to hit the California border, call what we call ‘Southern Ops,’ which is their operations center in Southern California, and then get an assignment.”

Dry weather conditions and heavy winds in Southern California are making the fires easy to ignite and difficult to contain. According to the LA Times, at least five people have died, 2,000 structures have burned and at least 130,000 residents are under evacuation orders.

As of Thursday, the Palisades Fire, which encompasses an area of Los Angeles County between Santa Monica and Malibu, and the Eaton fire, which covered over 10,000 acres through Altadena and Pasadena, were both 0% contained.