Rain helped firefighters make progress on Interior region fires
Two incident management teams from Australia arrived this week to relieve workers in northern and southern part of Vanderhoof-Fort St. James zone.
In the central Interior, 19 fires that are highly visible and pose a threat to public safety are currently burning out of control. “We’ve had a lot of support from heavy equipment in the region and they have been putting guards in lot of those fires which has helped us while we’re waiting for more resources to arrive from other places.”
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