Saskatchewan firefighters return from battling B.C. wildfires
Owen Price has fought wildfires for 30 years and said the smoke conditions he witnessed in wildfire-stricken British Columbia is something he has never experienced in his career.
He was one of 31 logistics operators and firefighters from Saskatchewan who have returned home after spending two weeks speckled across B.C. assisting in various wildfire operations.
Crews from across Canada — including the military — and around the world have descended on that province, which remains under a state of emergency, as over 550 wildfires rage on, forcing nearly 20,000 people under evacuation alerts and orders.
“It is quite something to be part of,” the agency representative for the group told media after their plane landed in Prince Albert Tuesday afternoon.