Four fire specialists from Forestry Corporation will serve as part of a New South Wales deployment of firefighters assisting authorities in Canada to tackle the country’s wildfires. A contingent of 31 incident management, aviation and heavy machinery specialists will depart for Canada after receiving a request for assistance from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. Canada is experiencing significant fire activity with 650 active fires burning. Forestry Corporation’s Bombala-based Silviculture and Fire Coordinator Tim Gillespie-Jones and South Coast Fire and Operations Team Leader Peter Carstairs, who also deployed to Canada last fire season, will fly to British Columbia. Forestry Corporation’s Senior Manager Environment and Sustainability Dean Kearney and Lead Forestry Officer Daniel Macaree will also deploy to Canada. Gillespie-Jones said, “I’m looking forward to repaying the favour to the Canadian firefighters who assisted our crews in 2019 and 2020″.