Minister says dozens of firefighters from Alberta and B.C. to install in California
OTTAWA — Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan says dozens of firefighters from Alberta and British Columbia will assist combat wildfires in California, and the federal authorities is co-ordinating efforts with the provinces to install assets .
Sajjan says in a social media put up that 60 firefighters from the 2 provinces might be deployed as quickly as Monday, and that Canadian officers are running to discover and put together extra assets to ship withinside the days ahead.
He says withinside the put up that, "Our American pals have requested for assist to combat the wildfires in California and Team Canada is responding," and he concludes with, "Neighbours assisting neighbours."
A spokeswoman for Sajjan confirms in an e mail that Canada has acquired and accepted an reliable request for assist .
Alberta introduced closing week that it's far sending as much as forty wildland firefighters with extra personnel, waterbombers and shriveled night time - imaginative and prescient helicopters geared up to install .
B.C.'s forests minister, meanwhile, has stated a group from the province's wildfire carrier left for California on Saturday afternoon to assist warfare the wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area.
Quebec stated Friday it'll ship extra firefighting plane to California, an afternoon after one of the province's water bombers collided with a drone even as struggling with the wildfires. The Canadian-made CL-415 become one of the province's planes that become already assisting withinside the wildfire.
Their crews are despatched to California each fall as a part of an annual settlement that has been in vicinity for extra than 30 years.
The huge fires have killed sixteen human beings and 150,000 human beings in Los Angeles County are beneathneath evacuation orders.
Alberta's Forestry and Parks Minister Todd Loewen stated on social media on Saturday that the forty firefighters from Alberta are a " skilled and experienced" group of Type 1 wildland firefighters.
" I even have spoken immediately to Cal Fire and to the Governor's Office of Emergency Services to guarantee them that Alberta is ready to aid them of their ongoing efforts," Loewen stated in his put up .
Loewen stated extra Type 1 firefighters, incident command personnel, and certified aid workforce are geared up to go, if requested.
He delivered that Alberta is likewise making ready its water bombers, pilots, and shriveled night time imaginative and prescient helicopters to help in California.
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