The Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection on Thursday will send a 20-person fire crew to Montana to help the U.S. Forest Service fight wildfires.
This is the second fire crew DEEP sent west this year to help with wildfires, after a separate crew left Aug. 4 to help with California’s wildfires. Connecticut is part of a reciprocal aid program operated by the U.S. Forest Service.
The crew going to Montana will be part of more than 30,000 trained firefighters from across the nation that have responded to 8 million acres of burned forest so far this year in the western states and Alaska.
The Connecticut crew – consisting of seven DEEP staff members and 13 local firefighters – will assemble at 4 a.m. Thursday in Marlborough before departing out of Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in New Hampshire.
