As California blazes rage, travel nurses fill critical need at fire camps

Amy Butterfield, a travel nurse from Maine who is part of a pod treating injuries at Northern California fire camps, assists firefighters at the Santa Rosa Fairgrounds. As fire seasons worsen, the need for nurses grows.



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As California blazes rage, travel nurses fill critical need at fire camps

Beatriz Avalos, a travel nurse from Florida, checks medical supplies at the firefighter triage tent at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico.



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As California blazes rage, travel nurses fill critical need at fire camps

Nurse Beatriz Avalos enters the medical tent at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico.



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As California blazes rage, travel nurses fill critical need at fire camps

Travel nurse Amy Butterfield checks a first aid kit in one of the trucks outside the Santa Rosa Fairgrounds where firefighters rest.



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As California blazes rage, travel nurses fill critical need at fire camps

Nurse Beatriz Avalos asks Gabriel Gonzalez Aguilar about his poison oak symptoms inside the medical tent at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico.



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As California blazes rage, travel nurses fill critical need at fire camps

Travel nurse Amy Butterfield checks a first aid kit on a fire truck outside the Santa Rosa Fairgrounds.



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As California blazes rage, travel nurses fill critical need at fire camps

Nurse Beatriz Avalos checks outside the medical tent for any people making their way to the tent at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico.



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As California blazes rage, travel nurses fill critical need at fire camps

Amy Butterfield is part of a pod of travel nurses assigned to treat injured firefighters at fire camps in Northern California.



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