Canada and New Brunswick Announce Major Investment in Wildfire Equipment and to Improve Community Resilience Against Wildfires

By Natural Resources Canada
Cision Newswire
February 14, 2025
Category: Forestry
Region: Canada, Canada East

MONCTON, New Brunswick –– The Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, on behalf of  Jonathan Wilkinson, and the Honourable John Herron, New Brunswick Minister of Natural Resources, announced a joint investment of $40.1 million over four years through the Government of Canada’s Fighting and Managing Wildfires in a Changing Climate Program (FMWCC) – Equipment Fund and the Resilient Communities through FireSmart (RCF) Program. This joint investment is supporting the purchase of equipment such as tanks and pumps, drones, trucks and heavy equipment. …This joint investment will also support wildfire preparation through the application of FireSmart practices in New Brunswick.

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