An army of young men and women are spending their summer battling what could be one of Canada's worst fire seasons on record.
Lakeland College firefighter training students Elizabeth Meisner and Rylynn Ford pose in this undated handout photo.
“I feel like it makes me want to be a firefighter more and kind of learn more so that I can protect myself and my teammates,” said Lange, who is originally from Manitoba. “As our core wildfire season happens at a time when many students have their summer break, they are often looking for work at that time. As such, 30 to 35 per cent of them would normally be expected to return to school in the fall,” said the statement.
“We don’t see a big increase of volunteerism for those four months that students are back at home, away from school,” he said. “ the way that we just kind of all came together as a community to make sure that this one person got everything that they needed in a timely fashion,” said Uwazny, who is from Lethbridge, Alberta.Uwazny said his family was “happy and excited” when he decided to become a firefighter through Lakeland’s training course.
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