An initial attack crew from Campbell River is a part of a contingency of 206 firefighters from across the province headed to Oregon to help battle out of control wildfires.
A total of 37 crew members from the Coastal Fire Centre will be deployed, with crews headed to Chilliwack for briefing today.
The crews will depart for Redmond, Oregon, most likely tomorrow.
“It’s a mix of a unit crew, some initial attack crews, and then a single resource that will be operating as a task-force leader,” said Forrest Tower with the B.C. Wildfire Service.
“More personnel may be deployed in the coming days and weeks depending on how things go,” Tower said.
Smoke from the wildfires has shrouded much of the Pacific Northwest in a thick haze for more than a week.
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