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Firefighters from across Canada and U.S. lend hand in Quebec forest fire fight

Firefighters from across Canada and U.S. lend hand in Quebec forest fire fight | iNFOnews.ca
Photographer: Jennifer Stahn

MONTREAL – More than 200 firefighters from across Canada and the northeastern United States have been sent to Quebec this month to help fight forest fires.

Quebec's forest fire protection service says the reinforcements hail from Saskatchewan, Alberta, Massachusetts and from Parks Canada.

They will join the service's 400 firefighters as well as their colleagues already lending a hand from New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Hampshire and Maine.

About 60 fires are active at the moment.

A spokeswoman for the fire protection service says there have been 357 fires in the province so far this year, up from an average of 276.

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Shelby Thevenot

Shelby has lived across Canada. She grew up near Winnipeg, Manitoba then obtained her B.F.A in Multidisciplinary Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. In 2014 she moved to Montreal, Quebec to study French and thrived in the Visual Journalism Graduate Diploma program at Concordia University. Now she works at iNFO News where she strives to get the stories that matter to the Okanagan Valley community.

Member of:

The Professional Writers Association of Canada

Quebec Writers Federation

English Language Arts Network

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