WATCH: Fire Goats At Work In Laguna Beach

LAGUNA BEACH, CA — It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it. In Laguna Beach, the fire goats were recently herded across Laguna Canyon Road, ensuring these baaaa-d dudes were able to do their job on both sides of the busy road way.

Laguna Beach Police Officers closed the road to make sure the fire goats could make it across, safely.

With all of the rain the state has experienced this past winter our hillside are now green with growth," the city of Laguna Beach said in a release earlier this year. "This growth in the City’s fourteen fuel modification zones must now be managed prior the beginning of fire season."

Read: Fire Goats Return To Laguna Beach, 2017

The herd of approximately 200 goats, including one or two new babies as seen in the below video, are doing their part to reduce the overgrowth in the aforementioned fuel modification zones.

Wildfire Awareness Week in California: Proclamation from Governor's Office:

Recently, California has experienced a drastic increase in the occurrence of large, damaging wildfires. Half of the state’s largest fires in recorded history have occurred in just the last 10 years. The citizens of California must do their part to help protect lives, property, and our state’s precious natural resources.

Despite recent rains, millions of dead and dying trees continue to increase the risk of destructive wildfires across the state. In 2015, I declared a state of emergency to address the state’s unprecedented tree die-off epidemic. The Tree Mortality Task Force – comprised of over 80 state and federal agencies, local and tribal governments and utilities – has to date removed over 423,000 dead trees in high-risk areas.

Wildfires are a natural, periodic occurrence in California. Many native species depend on cyclical fires for survival. Unfortunately, this natural process often conflicts with human land use, and careless or malicious human activity causes many fires that would not have occurred naturally. In order to continue to enjoy the economic and recreational benefits of our wilderness lands, we must strive to achieve a balance between California’s fire ecology and the need to protect human life and property.

Firefighting alone cannot protect us, and every citizen, especially those living in fire-prone areas, has an important role in preventing loss of life and property from wildfire events. This week, we should all do our part to raise public awareness of the fire season that is already upon us, and take steps to protect lives, homes and families in the event of a wildfire.

In conjunction with Wildfire Awareness Week, CAL FIRE has launched a campaign to educate homeowners on the steps they should take to prepare themselves for wildfire. This potentially lifesaving information can be found at www.ReadyForWildfire.org.

NOW THEREFORE I, EDMUND G. BROWN JR., Governor of the State of California, do hereby proclaim May 7-13, 2017 as “Wildfire Awareness Week.”