New Indigenous Wildfire Firefighter program has been announced in Quesnel
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The Quesnel Tillicum Society/Native Friendship Centre will be running a Wildfire Firefighter program.
Executive Director Tony Goulet says it will be a 6 week program beginning on March 1st…
“We’re going to train 20 indigenous youth, or 20 indigenous people in fire fighting, give them all the skills, all the equipment, everything that they need, and at the end of the program we’re hoping that Quesnel Tillicum Society will have a crew ready to go out and fight forest fires.”
Goulet says they are working with the senior governments to make sure that they are registered and can bid on forest fighting contracts.