HALIFAX – Wildfire fighters from two Maritime provinces are heading to Alberta.
Twenty firefighters from Nova Scotia and two from Prince Edward Island will be in Alberta for 14 days.
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Nova Scotia Natural Resources Minister Zach Churchill says other jurisdictions have helped his province before.
The government says 21 of the wildfire fighters will work as a team.
The other person will fill a wildfire management position.
A number of wildfires have been burning in northern Alberta with an evacuation earlier this week affecting nearly 5,000 people around Wabasca, more than 300 kilometres north of Edmonton.
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