About Baja California

Before becoming a state in 1953, the area was known as the North Territory of Baja California. It has an area of 70,113 km² (27,071 sq mi), or 3.57% of the land mass of Mexico and comprises the northern half of the Baja California peninsula, north of the 28th parallel. The state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the east by Sonora, the U.S. State of Arizona, and the Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez), and on the south by Baja California Sur. Its northern limit is the U.S. state of California.

The state has a population of 2,844,469 (2005 census), and estimated 3,165,776 (June 2009) much more than the sparsely populated Baja California Sur to the south, and similar to San Diego County, California on its north. Over 75% of the population lives in the capital city, Mexicali, in Ensenada, or in Tijuana. Other important cities include San Felipe, Rosarito and Tecate.

Baja California is where it all began, our visit to Tecate in 1999 started us on our path. We began working with the city of Tecate and the Bomberos from around the state. We have been working to bring agencies representing millions of citizens in the State together for more collaborative training and operations. Where borders were distinct and rarely crossed there is now more mutual assistance and development of resources.

In 2009, we began working with the group Bomberos De San Diego, a group of San Diego Fire firefighters that work in the area doing similar work. We partnered to bring training to Tecate initially and eventually worked in Tijuana Bomberos and were able to organize regional training at both Tecate and Tijuana inviting bomberos from around the area. Today, being one of the largest Cities in Mexico, we regularly rely on these Bomberos to assist us in our training.

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Baja 2011 Day 4 Training Day One

on 03 March 2011. Posted in Baja California

Marathon Day, Two Training topics at 2 locations.

Aaron Miranda from Poway Fire, and Antonio from Cruz Roja, Joel and Scott from Gig harbor Fire and FFCB worked with over 60 bomberos on Vehicle Extrication. We brought two Hurst Tools with us out of the cache of tools donated by Hurst Inc back in 2009. With cutters and spreaders and new power plants we cut on three cars each session. Located in a remote area of Tecate and utilizing buses for transport between training sites, we had firefighters from Tecate and Tijuana working together. One session in the morning and the second in the afternoon, our day began at 0700 and ended with the debrief at 1830 . Long day.

Our second class was a wet hose drill using an abandoned school that Tecate acquired recently for practice. Marcelo DeCasas from Bomberos de San Diego along with Omar Rodrigues and Oscar Saucedo. put together an awsome drill. With an engine from Tijuana pumping the evolutions, those guys pulled hose all day A obstical course was constructed by the Tecate guys under the supervision of Marcelo and its impressive. Pictures will be on the Facebook page and this site soon.

Tomorrow we have Search and Rescue in conjunction with Officer development and ICS. For now

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