Overview

• P.E.I. has dispatched 10 of its 55 trained forest firefighters to Yukon following their return from deployments in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
• Yukon Wildland Fire Management reports about 85 active fires concentrated in the Dawson and Mayo fire centres, including nine identified as high-priority ‘fires of note’
• The territory’s Level 2 fire restriction bans all open fires except cooking and warming fires in provided pits at road-accessible campgrounds
• Reinforcements consist of a heavy structure protection unit from Alberta, two helicopters and eight initial-attack crews from British Columbia, an 11-person crew from Oregon and a radio operator from New Brunswick
• P.E.I. relies on mutual-aid agreements with all Canadian jurisdictions and membership in the Northeastern Forest Fire Protection Compact to facilitate rapid resource sharing