Ontario is playing an active role in the forest fire fight in Alberta. The Province now has over 350 fire staff in the western Province, with about half representing Northwestern Ontario. The Ministry of Natural Resources says there have been roughly 53-hundred person days of support provided, just over half the total support provided to B.C. for all of last year. An Incident Management Team is slated to take over a 44-hundred square kilometre wildfire shortly, the largest wildfire Alberta has seen in 60-years. The forest fire hazard locally is high in the Far North and in the Fort Frances District and moderate across the rest of the Region.
Friday, June 10, 2011
MNR continues to help Alberta
Ontario is playing an active role in the forest fire fight in Alberta. The Province now has over 350 fire staff in the western Province, with about half representing Northwestern Ontario. The Ministry of Natural Resources says there have been roughly 53-hundred person days of support provided, just over half the total support provided to B.C. for all of last year. An Incident Management Team is slated to take over a 44-hundred square kilometre wildfire shortly, the largest wildfire Alberta has seen in 60-years. The forest fire hazard locally is high in the Far North and in the Fort Frances District and moderate across the rest of the Region.
