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Connecticut and New Hampshire send firefighters to Canada
Posted on Thursday, June 24, 2010Wildfire Today reports that the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection and the New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands have sent firefighters to Quebec, Canada, to assist the province with their wildfires. Both states are members of the Northeastern Forest Fire Protection Compact, a mutual aid organization between the New England states, New York and four eastern Canadian provinces. Members of the Compact train together and their equipment standards and capabilities are interchangeable.


