11-06-2025
Colorado firefighters in Canada assisting with wildfire
DENVER (KDVR) — It's not unusual for Colorado firefighters to hit the road and assist with wildfire mitigation in other places around the United States, but for a crew ready to help outside of a national boundary, their passports will be needed.
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The Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control put together a mix-and-match team that will head to Canada to help with the wildfires in Saskatchewan. The members of the crew come from modules, including:
Tava
Steel City
James Peak
Lone Pine
The team departed on Monday and is expecting to be assigned to the Pisew Fire near La Ronge when they arrive.
A separate team is going to help with either the Wolf Fire or the Pelican Narrows Fire, after they dispatch on Friday. The team is classified as a Type 3 Incident Management Team.
The two teams were deployed as part of the Great Plains Interstate Fire Compact, which includes:
Saskatchewan
Arizona
Kansas
Nebraska
New Mexico
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wyoming
Colorado
According to CDFPC, the compacts are authorized by federal and state legislation to enable states and provinces to collaborate and exchange resources for wildfire preparedness, response, fuels treatment and training, independent from federal systems and approvals.
In a social media post, CDFPC said that compact partners have assisted Colorado before, and its crew is pleased to reciprocate during Saskatchewan's time of need, as fire danger is low in Colorado at the moment.
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