Four St. Lawrence County residents have returned from fighting wildfires in the Western U.S.

The residents were part of a 20-member crew of Forest Rangers, employees and volunteers from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation who battled three California fires on the Mad River Complex for the past two weeks.

The St. Lawrence County residents included Corenne Black, James Canevari, Stephanie Larkin and Dale Robar.

The Mad River fires have burned a total of 37,462 acres, now with 100-percent containment. Governor Cuomo dispatched a total of 44 New York firefighters to assist in containing the West Coast fires this summer.

The returning crew was part of a group of 95 firefighters which worked to contain the Mad River Complex Fires for the past two weeks. In late July 2015, lightning ignited the Mad River Complex fires in northwest California’s Six Rivers National Forest. The three fires are now contained, but dry conditions require crews to maintain a constant presence to keep the fire contained.

The crew assisted in creating control lines to contain the wildfires, clearing materials from the path of the fires and completing burnout operations in which crews purposefully set land within the control line on fire to remove the larger fire's fuel.

The crew worked in rough terrain and endured daily high temperatures.