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A group of firefighters from Northeast Texas has completed a week of battling the wildfires that continue to rage in California. Firefighters from Paris, Powderly, Mt. Pleasant, Texarkana, Longview, Athens, and Nacogdoches are part of TIFMAS, which stands for Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System. The Texas A&M Forest Service maintains it. The firefighters from Texas have been working 24-hour shifts and should continue their work in California for another week. All have volunteered for the deployment to California.