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By KULR & The Associated Press

Story Published: Oct 24, 2007 at 6:16 AM MST

Story Updated: Oct 24, 2007 at 6:16 AM MST

MONTANA - Two Montana fire experts have been called to help with the major fires burning in Southern California.
Phil Perkins of Bozeman will be serving as an operations chief for the Angeles Forest. He says Montana got a lot of help from California during the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park and he wants to return the favor. As operations chief, Perkins will help develop suppression tactics and methods for daily fire missions.
Gallatin National Forest officials say West Yellowstone smoke jumper Hardy Bromegie is headed to San Diego to work as a division fire chief directing crews on fires near that city.
Since Sunday, the fires have burned at least 583 square miles, more than 1,300 homes and businesses and forced the evacuation of about 500,000 people.

COLORADO & WYOMING - Four C-130 cargo planes from Colorado and Wyoming Air Force units are heading to Southern California to fight wildfires.
Two planes are from the 302nd Airlift Wing, a reserve unit at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. The other two are from the 153rd Airlift Wing, a Wyoming Air National Guard unit in Cheyenne.
They were expected to leave Tuesday. All the planes are equipped with modular airborne firefighting equipment, which converts the planes to aerial tankers.

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