BC fire crews head to Quebec and Ontario
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British Columbia's Wildfire Management Branch is sending 210 personnel to Quebec and Ontario to aid those provinces with the fire activity they are experiencing.
Five 20-person unit crews, five division supervisors and three agency representatives will be leaving for Quebec, while four unit crews, three agency representatives and one incident management team will be heading to Ontario. The personnel will be departing on May 24 from Kamloops and Prince George.
The provinces of Quebec and Ontario made the requests through the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, which co-ordinates the mutual sharing of resources between BC and other jurisdictions.
Crews can be deployed for up to 14 days, but can be recalled at any time should the situation in BC change. Sufficient firefighting personnel and resources remain in BC at all times.
Costs associated with the deployment will be covered by the receiving jurisdictions under the Mutual Aid Resources Sharing Agreement, which allows for the movement of firefighting resources throughout Canada.
This is the second out-of-province deployment this year. Initial attack crews, which were deployed to Manitoba on May 15, are returning to BC today.
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