A California city is hiring hungry goats again to help prevent wildfires

Anaheim, California, has re-upped its contract with Environmental Land Management in order to use goats year-round for wildfire prevention, NPR reported.

There have been goats grazing in places including Deer Canyon Park to eat the flammable dried brush and grasses.

“It would be almost impossible for a human to sit there or walk up and down with a weed whacker or a weed eater, so that’s why we use the goats,” the city’s Fire Marshal Allen Hogue told NPR.

This isn’t the first time California has used goats to try to prevent fires. It’s a trend in the state.

Johnny Gonzales, who runs Environmental Land Management, oversees 1,200 goats that work in Southern California. He tells CNN that there is more interest than ever in goats.

Fifteen of the 20 biggest fires since 1932 have happened in California, and the trend is projected to continue as climate change makes it even hotter and drier, CNN reported.

In October, a herd of 500 goats helped save the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library from fires, the Guardian reported. The library had goats eat through 13 acres of brush that could’ve help fuel the wildfires.

There are risks with using goats as fire prevention. In West Boise, Idaho, more than 100 goats roamed the neighborhood and ate up people’s lawns, the Guardian reported.