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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Tecate 2009 Mission Day 2

on 22 March 2009. Posted in Baja California

We left Steve’s house this morning after a high fiber breakfast and headed for Placerville CA to pick up some donated equipment from El Dorado County Station 23. Thank you Captain Allen Littlejohn for helping us load the truck in the snow. Yes it snowed on us. OK it snowed on Mark and Scott, Joel and Greg were in the building handing equipment out the door. A quick stop in Mantica for lunch at the In-N-Out. We Google searched their secret menu before we arrived so we looked like studs as we ordered. Scott said posers but Greg says studs. You have to try the Animal Style fries. Off to Mariposa CA where on the down hill slope Greg smoked the breaks on the truck and Mark threw him out of the drivers Seat. Again in Mariposa as we were loading the truck it snowed on Mark and Scott. You think they would learn. So now we are off to Bakersfield for the night where hopefully the weather is above freezing.

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