Twenty Portland-area firefighters are back home after spending nearly two weeks in southern Oregon fighting wildfires. Gresham firefighter Pat McAbery captured video of winds gusting and flames roaring as the Almeda Fire ransacked homes and businesses in Talent, Phoenix and the outskirts of Medford. “We were the first out-of-the-area resources to roll into the area for them,” McAbery told FOX 12 on Sunday. It was the desperate help Jackson County needed. The Multnomah County Task Force 30 spent 12 days fighting the fires before returning home this past Saturday. The crew arrived into Medford in the early hours of September 9 – going to work immediately and saving dozens of mobile homes at the Medford Estates neighborhood. “We literally took out a chainsaw and worked our way into the back there to find there’s a lot of homes in here that haven’t burned,” McAbery said.