Canterbury Mornings

New Zealand firefighters have been called on to help their North American counterparts dealing with out of control wildfires in both Canada and California.The wildfires in British Colombia are now covering over ten thousand hectares and are creeping towards the US boarder.Jamie Cowan is the New Zealand liaison for the Canada deployment who has been working with Canadian authorities on what our people will do once they get there.Jamie told Chris Lynch that there will be 67 kiwi firefighters in Canada lending a hand.