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Wildfires: Canada, US expand agreement to help each other fight blazes

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Canada and the U.S. are expanding an agreement to share personnel and equipment to help fight wildfires, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson and U.S. Ambassador David Cohen announced in Ottawa on Thursday.

The new agreement replaces a number of separate deals between the two countries in a bid to make the sharing of firefighters, incident managers and equipment more efficient.

“Taking on wildland fires is something that is particularly well-suited for a bi-national approach because wildland fires do not respect borders and a wildland fire doesn’t know when they’re about to cross the Canadian border into the United States,” Cohen said in his remarks.

The agreement comes as Canada continues to battle its worst wildfire season in history, with more than 61,000 square km of land burned so far this year — which is about the same size as Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island combined. The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre says nearly 2,000 international firefighting personnel are in Canada right now, including several hundred from the U.S.

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