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Canada wildfires: Trudeau deploys military to tackle blazes across British Columbia
(www.theguardian.com)
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Will be watching to see how they do.
Hopefully this will lead to more funding for the severely underfunded armed forces.
I hope they had enough funding to provide them with rudimentary wildfire training. Although I’m sure there’s lots of need digging trenches and evacuating civilians, as well as providing logistical support to the professional wildfire fighters.
Military members used to get a one day course which qualifies them wildland firefighter type III. They were then employed in small squads under the supervision of an experience wildland firefighter.
I assume it's still the same, but may have changed.