Andrew Stewart said his first glimpse of a Canadian wildfire left quite the impression.
The firefighter from the South Australian Country Fire Service arrived in Canada on June 8 and was deployed to the wildfire burning near Edson, Alta., roughly 200 kilometres west of Edmonton.
“We could see multiple plumes of smoke in the local area and for us, we could tell from the fire behaviour we could see, and the smoke we could see, they were fairly intense fires moving at a rapid, rapid rate through the forest in high fuel loads,” he said.
“From that, we knew we’re going to have some significant days ahead of us.”
Stewart is one of
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