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Publishing date: Dec 10, 2020 • December 10, 2020 • 1 minute read •
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I was pleased and honoured to read the article by Joanne McQuarrie about our Jasper Parks Canada firefighters in the Jasper Fitzhugh paper on December 9, 2020. Our firefighters returned home in October after helping in the Lions Head fire in Oregon from September 17 to October 2
nd. There were 25 in total – a 20-pack unit crew, four task force leaders, one helicopter manager and a Parks Canada representative. The fire crew patrolled the perimeter of the areas on fire and were given a section of the area to patrol and extinguish hot spots. Hundreds of thousands of people, as well as 500,000 were evacuated at one point.