Quebec reinforces contingent battling forest fires in B.C.

Quebec’s forest fire protection agency (SOPFEU) announced Thursday it has deployed two more teams of firefighters to help colleagues in British Columbia who have spent the past few weeks battling forest fires in their province.
A new contingent composed of 20 forest firefighters with an initial deployment of four firefighters and a SOPFEU representative were scheduled to leave late Thursday for Prince George, about 800 kilometres north of Vancouver.
The reinforcement brings to 69 the numbe