(Ministry of Natural Resources Photo)Ontario fire crews are playing a huge role in forest fire suppression efforts in British Columbia.
The Ministry of Natural Resources has provided nearly five-hundred fireRangers and support personnel for the past two weeks.
MNR Senior agency rep David Cleavely says they've often been asked to take a lead role in many fires.
"As well as having firefighters out here we also have three incident management teams," says Cleavely. "Those teams have been given the responsibility of a large amount of land base. Some of them looking after 30 fires and some of those fires in the neighbourhood of 10 to 20-thousand hectares in size."
Cleavely says the biggest challenge for firefighters has been thick smoke and high temperatures which is restricting the crews work to the morning hours.
