Source: Fire and Emergency New ZealandFire and Emergency New Zealand is deploying six incident management specialists to Canada this week to support the country’s response to extensive wildfires. A Liaison Officer left for Winnipeg yesterday and the other five depart tomorrow for Vancouver, where they will be assigned to incident management teams working on fires in British Columbia. Canada is currently experiencing extreme wildfire activity with 484 active wildfires and over 2 million hectares affected. Five incident management team members travelled to the United States last month and are working on fires in Idaho. “Given the predictions for a challenging fire season here, these opportunities to be part of wildfire management in Canada and the US couldn’t be more timely.”