Los Angeles wildfires: Canada to deploy Air Force assets to help
Global News
Firefighters in the Los Angeles-area have been battling raging fires for several days now, with the flames killing 10 people and whole neighbourhoods obliterated.
Canada will deploy assets of the Royal Canadian Air Force to help fight the wildfires in and around Los Angeles, Defence Minister Bill Blair said in a statement Friday.
“I have approved a request to deploy @RCAF_ARC assets to transport firefighters, equipment, and other resources to California, to assist in fighting the devastating wildfires,” Blair said in a post on X.
Blair said the Canadian Forces “stand ready to transport personnel and equipment to support our American neighbours.”
Firefighters have been battling raging fires for several days now, with the flames killing 10 people and destroying whole neighbourhoods.
The decision by Blair comes a day after Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan said on X that the federal government, alongside Ontario, Quebec and Alberta, were ready to deploy 250 firefighters, aircraft equipment and other resources as early as Thursday night.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters Thursday that he’d been “back and forth exchanging” with California Gov. Gavin Newsom to offer Canadian resources.
“Unfortunately, Canada has developed a significant amount of expertise in wildfires that are encroaching on suburban and urban areas,” said Trudeau, who was in Washington for the funeral of former U.S. president Jimmy Carter.
Late that day, B.C. Forests Minister Ravi Parmer said on X that California had come to B.C. directly, requesting the province’s “senior-level expertise” to work with them.
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