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Originally Posted by 2MuchMark
My brother lives on the West coast in BC and the fires are out of control. It's so bad that soot is blowing through the air hundreds of miles away from the fires making it harder to breathe.
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This is a constant for us here. The effort to fight this is massive.
If I understand correctly there is a shared resources system where local fire departments are required to pitch in firemen, trucks, etc.... Every now and then we can see them in convoys on freeway when they go down to Southern California.
And they are super quick to respond to any fire. I am friends with a local fire Captain here and I had the chance to ride along with them last spring and it was eye opening.