South African Firefighters Show Up to Fight Canada Wildfire, Burst Into Song
05/31/2016
The first thing the 281 South African firefighters did when they touched down in Edmonton was sing.
They sang soldier songs — songs of South Africa — while the large crowd gathered there to welcome them cheered.
The officers are in Alberta for a standard deployment of 14 days, with the possibility of an extension.
Canada is part of a program with several other countries run by the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC).
CIFFC co-ordinates requests for assistance from provinces that have exceeded their internal firefighting capacity.
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