June 9, 2023
Governor Kathy Hochul has announced that a team of Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers is deploying to assist with efforts to contain wildfires raging in eastern Canada.
The governor says that the New York team will join firefighters from New Hampshire and Maine in Quebec. Hundreds of fires in Quebec have triggered several days of air quality health advisories across New York State.
Sneator Kirsten Gillibrand has put the National Forest Service on standby, and they might be sent up too.
