Nova Scotia sends 20 firefighters to Yukon to help fight wildfires

Six weeks after two major wildfires in Nova Scotia, the province has sent 20 firefighters north to provide support to crews tackling multiple wildfires in Yukon.

Six weeks after two major wildfires in Nova Scotia, the province has sent 20 firefighters north to provide support to crews tackling multiple wildfires in Yukon.

The firefighters left Halifax on Sunday.

In a release earlier this weekend, Minister of Natural Resources Tory Rushton said the province is now able to send the firefighters back up north because "conditions and resources are at a manageable level."

Nova Scotia sent 20 firefighters north in May to help battle wildfires in the Northwest Territories. They were recalled about a week and a half later to fight fires in Shelburne County and Upper Tantallon.