British Columbia has requested 1,000 additional international firefighters to join the battle against the province's wildfires.
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Ma says a team from Australia is arriving on Saturday, adding to the 160 international personnel from Mexico and the United States currently deployed in B.C. “The fire season now is obviously sparking up pretty seriously out there and they have sent us an indication of some additional resources that they will require,” he said in an interview Thursday.
“If there are communities that become isolated and need to be evacuated, then Canadian Armed Forces provides those resources,” Blair said. Blair says B.C. is one of the better equipped provinces to handle fires because it is often among the hardest hit, but any extra help needed is being made available.
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