Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

101 firefighters from Mexico arrived in Canada today to help battle blazes

For the fourth time, the Government of Mexico, through the National Forestry Commission (Conafor), sent a contingent of firefighters to help suppress forest fires in Canada, made up of 101 people.

The Mexican contingent, which this time will work in the province of Ontario, is made up of five brigades, five brigade chiefs, 20 crew chiefs, two representatives of the field unit, a COVID coordinator, and the rest as line combatant personnel who make a total of 101 people.

The personnel, Conafor pointed out, comes from 22 entities in the country: Aguascalientes, Campeche, Chiapas, Mexico . . .

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