Los Angeles wildfires: Alberta plans to send water bombers, other resources to California [Video]

As a catastrophic wildfire situation continued to unfold in Los Angeles on Thursday, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced her province is preparing to help with the natural disaster.

“We are preparing to deploy incident command team support to California, as well as additional wildfire-fighting resources, including water bombers and night-vision helicopters,” Smith said in a post on X.

As of early Thursday morning, officials in California said five people had already died because of the fires that broke out in the Los Angeles area earlier this week.

About 130,000 people in the area are under evacuation orders and more stories of evacuees’ harrowing escape from the flames are emerging while the fires continue to consume structures.

“Our hearts go out to everyone in California who has been evacuated due to the devastating forest fire,” Smith said.

“Alberta is also actively working with the federal government and the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) to assess California’s needs.”

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