One of the approximately 170 goats eat the brush and growth from the hillsides at Pelanconi Park in Anaheim, on Thursday, April 27, 2017. It will take the goats about a month to clear the 27 acres area. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)

One of the approximately 170 goats that are being used to eat the brush and growth from the hillsides at Pelanconi Park in Anaheim, on Thursday, April 27, 2017. It will take the goats about a month to clear the 27 acres area. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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A few of the approximately 170 goats gather near a water trough as they eat the brush and growth from the hillsides at Pelanconi Park in Anaheim, on Thursday, April 27, 2017. It will take the goats about a month to clear the 27 acres area. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Johnny Gonzales, who operates Environmental Land Management, holds one of the approximately 170 goats that are being used to clear away the brush and growth from the hillsides at Pelanconi Park in Anaheim, on Thursday, April 27, 2017. It will take the goats about a month to clear the 27 acres area. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)

One of the hillsides that has been eaten and cleared by the approximately 170 goats at Pelanconi Park in Anaheim, on Thursday, April 27, 2017. It will take the goats about a month to clear the 27 acres area. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)



One of the hillsides that has not been eaten and cleared by the approximately 170 goats at Pelanconi Park in Anaheim, on Thursday, April 27, 2017. It will take the goats about a month to clear the 27 acres area. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)

One of the approximately 170 goats that are being used to eat the brush and growth from the hillsides at Pelanconi Park in Anaheim, on Thursday, April 27, 2017. It will take the goats about a month to clear the 27 acres area. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Approximately 170 goats eat the brush and growth from the hillsides at Pelanconi Park in Anaheim, on Thursday, April 27, 2017. It will take the goats about a month to clear the 27 acres area. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)

A sign informs visitors that an electric fence is being used to keep approximately 170 goats in a penned area where they are being used to eat the brush and growth from the hillsides at Pelanconi Park in Anaheim, on Thursday, April 27, 2017. It will take the goats about a month to clear the 27 acres area. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)

A few of the approximately 170 goats that are eating the brush and growth from the hillsides at Pelanconi Park in Anaheim, on Thursday, April 27, 2017. It will take the goats about a month to clear the 27 acres area. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)



A sign informs visitors that approximately 170 goats are being used to eat the brush and growth from the hillsides at Pelanconi Park in Anaheim, on Thursday, April 27, 2017. It will take the goats about a month to clear the 27 acres area. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Approximately 170 goats eat the brush and growth from a hillside at Pelanconi Park in Anaheim, on Thursday, April 27, 2017. It will take the goats about a month to clear the 27 acres area. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Anaheim’s newest workers are hungry for work.

Thursday, the herd of about 170 goats munched its way through brush around Pelanconi Park.

The goats are one way the Anaheim Fire and Rescue Department is clearing out old brush from the city’s wildfire-prone hillsides, especially in the eastern regions.

The city hired Environmental Land Management of San Diego for $99,000 to provide the herd, which will take about a month to clear about 27 acres. The goats are watched around the clock and an electrified fence keeps them in particular areas.