According to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC), over 3,700 foreign firefighters have travelled to Canada to help battle the historic forest fires this summer including 140 South Koreans, the first-ever team sent from there to help battle the blazes.
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Ottawa, Jul 1 (Prensa Latina) South Korea will send 151 firefighters to Canada to join the efforts to extinguish hundreds of forest fires that have devastated vast forests in the country, according to local media.