AUSTRALIAN FIRE SPECI FIREFIGHTERS IN CANA In July 2021, a contingent of 55 Australian fire management and specialist personnel were deployed to Canada to assist firefighters battling wildfires in British Columbia, following a request from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. Nearly 1,000 individual wildfires burned in northwestern Ontario amid drought-like conditions. The forest fires burned nearly 80,000 hectares of land across Ontario in 2021, the most on record in the province in a single year. 55 Australian personnel were deployed over four weeks to Canada and completed two weeks of hotel quarantine upon their return to Australia. Personnel from Australian emergency services included 22 NSW RFS members, ten from Fire and Rescue NSW, three National Parks and Wildlife Service members, three from NSW State Emergency Service and 17 from Western Australia.
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