About 70 provincial civil servants have signed up to become wildfire fighters as part of the provincial government’s plan to better prepare Prince Edward Island for future fire seasons.
If all of them complete the training, the Island’s contingent of provincial wildfire fighters will more than quadruple.
“It’s so exciting that we have such a great response,” said Steven Myers, the province’s minister of environment, energy and climate change. “It’s just going to take us a little bit longer to get each and every one of them certified.”
The province had been planning to train everyone this fall, but a second cohort will now be trained in 2024,
