As of Monday afternoon View Royal Fire Rescue was still awaiting word on whether they would be called out to the wildfire-ravaged B.C. Interior.

Fire Chief Paul Hurst has already been deployed to work with the fire commissionerB次元官网网址檚 office in Kamloops and he was later redeployed to Williams Lake, where a series of fires are estimated to total 10,000 hectares combined.

Hurst, who was unavailable for comment prior to the 骋补锄别迟迟别B次元官网网址檚 deadline, has likely been helping to form a provincial fire department and assisting with the process of pulling in additional resources, according to Assistant Chief Rob Marshall. These are standard practices whenever a state of emergency is declared, as the B.C. government did over the weekend.

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Hurst may also be involved with evacuation planning, Marshall added.

If View Royal gets deployed, theyB次元官网网址檒l send their spare pumper truck and four firefighters.

Marshall worked as a planning operations chief during the 2003 B.C. wildfires near Kelowna B次元官网网址� the last time the province declared a state of emergency B次元官网网址� and helped with the co-ordination of personnel and equipment in and out of the area.

His experience during that blaze gives him some insight into the challenges facing crews right now.

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Other Greater Victoria crews are also likely to be called as needed.

joel.tansey@goldstreamgazette.com