Many of the firefighters that helped in western North Carolina are from the Piedmont Triad with an up-close view of the Party Rock wildfire. It was a view that they saw nearly every day for almost two weeks. "When you pull into that base camp and just see all of those resources and all of those people in that one place,” Capt. Michael Page, Greensboro Fire Department described. “That’s pretty eye opening to how big that incident was. You look over the mountains and see smoke." Both the Pinecroft-Sedgefield and Greensboro fire departments sent firefighters to help with the wildfires. They were part of nearly a thousand first responders there to protect the houses and businesses in the area.