More Utah wildland firefighters in Canada amid ‘worst wildfire season’

By Brian Schnee
KUTV.com
June 14, 2023
Category: Forestry
Region: Canada, United States

Another crew of Utah firefighters arrived in Canada this week to assist with wildfire suppression. Color Country 1, a Type 2 Initial Attack interagency crew landed in Val-d’or, Quebec. The 20 person hand crew is heading to Lebel-sur-Quévillon, a city in the province of Quebec, located on Route 113 in the Jamésie region. The Color Country fire crew based out of the Cedar City area, is made up of 13 firefighters from the U.S. Forest Service’s Dixie National Forest and seven firefighters from the Bureau of Land Management.

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