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WEBVTT TODAY. BRANDI CUMMINGS WAS THERE WHEN THE TEAM RETURNED HOME. >> MEMBERS OF THE SACK FIRE DEPARTMENT RETURNED FROM A 14 DATE DEPLOYMENT. THE CREW UNLOADED AND UNPACKED, BUT NOT FORGETTING THE WILDFIRES THEY LEFT BEHIND. >> WE ARE PUSHING OURSELVES TO THE LIMIT. >> THIS EIGHT-YEAR VETERAN SAYS HE WAS AT WORK WHEN THEY GOT THE CALL. >> AND WE WERE OUT THE DOOR, DRIVING EIGHT TO 10 HOURS TO THE SOUTH OF THE SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS. >> THIS CREW BATTLED THE CRANSTON FIRE, THEN MOVED ON TO THE MENTOR CHINO COMPLEX FIRE. THEY WERE MORE CHALLENGING THAN OTHERS HE HAS SEEN. >> THE FIRE WAS PUSHED ALL OVER THE PLACE. SUPER HOT AND DRY AND FAST. >> FIVE ENGINES FROM DIFFERENT AGENCIES JOINED FORCES TO BATTLE THE BLAZE, OFTEN TIMES GETTING LITTLE SLEEP. >> OFTEN TIMES, YOU MIGHT CATCH 30 MINUTES. >> THEY HEARD ABOUT THE TRAGIC DEATHS OF OTHERS DOING EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE DOING. >> THE RECENT FIRES BECAME PERSONAL FOR THIS 30 YEAR FIREFIGHTER. HE HAS FAMILY IN WRITING APPEARED TO HIS FRIEND LOST A HOME IN CHICO AND A HOTSHOT FIREFIGHTER RECENTLY DIED DOING THE JOB HE ONCE DID. WE JUST TRY TO TRAIN AS MUCH AS WE CAN. >> BOTH MAN THAT