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Quebec is bringing in more than 100 firefighters from other provinces as crews battle 195 active forest fires across the province. SOPFEU, Quebec’s forest fire prevention and firefighting organization, announced Friday 63 firefighters from British Columbia were expected to arrive that day. Another 21 firefighters from New Brunswick and 17 from Prince Edward Island are scheduled to arrive Saturday. The reinforcements will support the 640 Quebec forest firefighters and auxiliary combatants already deployed in the field. According to SOPFEU, 195 fires were burning across Quebec as of Friday, including 13 in the province’s intensive protection zone — the more populated part of the province where fires are actively fought because they pose a potential risk to communities, infrastructure or economic activity. SOPFEU said many of the fires are burning deep underground, making them more difficult to extinguish.