Fire Crews From USA in the 2-5-0

Tuesday, July 18, 2006 12:00 PM

About one hundred fire fighters from Oregon and Montana are in the Prince George Fire Centre. Most have been deployed to the "Carp Lake Complex", a group of five fires in the Carp Lake area about 100 km northwest of Prince George.

Prince George Fire Centre spokesperson Barb Durau says the US crews are expected to be here for about another week. While there was no specific call for extra help from the States, Durau says the additional crews will replace the Ontario crews which will be heading home because of increased activity in that province.

The U.S. crews include teams of highly organized, highly trained initial attack crews that are typically deployed to tougher assignments.

Right now the fire danger in the Prince Geoge Fire Centre is low to moderate.

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Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 12:00 PM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: Gofaster on July 18 2006 1:35 PM

Interesting that they are here instead of helping the helpless in California.
That or the California fires are not what is claimed, or the crews aren't....
my opinion

Posted by: owl on July 18 2006 2:24 PM

Seems like a reasonable conclusion based on the information at hand.

Maybe there is something we do not know, such that the firecrews are trained for different terrain and fire conditions .......

or that they speak English instead of Spanish.

;-)

Posted by: Gofaster on July 20 2006 12:33 PM

Oh, they speak????