A working group comprised of members of Public Safety Canada, the Canadian Armed Forces and British Columbia emergency management and wildfire officials are set to meet Monday as several hundred blazes burn across the province.
A statement from B.C.’s Ministry of Emergency Management said the meeting will focus on plans for deploying federal resources after the province requested help in the fight.
It said two military reconnaissance teams were deployed Sunday, with a “land force team” arriving at the ministry’s emergency operations centre in Prince George and an air force team bound for the B.C. Wildfire Service (BCWS) co-ordination centre in Kamloops.
The ministry said the teams are conducting assessments that will inform deployment plans for additional
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