Emergency response team helps California schools navigate wildfires

DURING THE HEIGHT of the wildfire season, Joe Anderson and Jake Wolf met virtually every Thursday morning with exhausted and bewildered school superintendents whose campuses had either been evacuated or destroyed by the wildfires raging through California.

The pair make up the California Department of Education’s Emergency Services Team, but to some school district officials assisted by them, they and their director, Juan Mireles, are affectionately referred to as the 3 J’s.