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Firefighting aircraft provided by the Quebec government and a B.C.-based company are helping to battle the massive wildfires tearing through the Los Angeles area.

They include a pair of Canadian-made water-bombing planes out of Quebec, as well as Coulson Aviation’s helicopters that the company says are “on the frontline” of the fight.

Coulson says in a social media post that its crews are “braving high winds and challenging conditions” in the fight against the Palisades fire.

Thousands of firefighters are tackling multiple blazes that have killed at least two people and destroyed more than 1,000 structures across the Los Angeles area as of Wednesday morning, according to Los Angeles County’s fire chief.

Coulson, which is based in Port Alberni, B.C., but also operates in the United States and Australia, says its aircraft in the fight include its double-rotor Chinook fleet and a smaller Sikorsky S-76 helicopter.

A spokesperson for Quebec’s …

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