Two-week deployment brought 215 fire specialists to douse blazes burning near Vanderhoof, Fort St. James
After a month battling B.C. wildfires, a group of 215 South African firefighters is going home this weekend, just in time for the Heritage Day holiday Sunday in their homeland.
“It has been a great pleasure to give support to our brothers and sisters in this part of the world, it was a very good experience,” said Antoinette Jini, senior representative of the South African force. The South African force spent several weeks in Alberta fighting fires on mop-up/clean-up detail and hot-spot patrols before they arrived in Kamloops Aug. 29. They made up one third of the Van-Jam firefighting force and had the numbers to make up 11 unit crews.
“There are things happening in Canada which we do not have in South Africa, so it was a great experience,” Zulu said.’ The incident command system that is being used here is very amazing. You see many structures pulling together in one incident to make sure they achieve the goal to put the fire out.”
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