Another one hundred Ministry of Natural Resource forest firefighters will depart for British Columbia this afternoon.There are currently over two-hundred MNR personnel now in that province, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Fire Information Officer Debbie MacLean says more personnel will be provided if called upon.
Of the MNR personnel in the west, 75 are from the west fire region with another 63 to be part of today's deployment.
Due to all the rain in recent weeks, the fire hazard is low across most of northwestern Ontario
and no new fires have been reported in several days.
