First responders from Delta have answered the call to help battle the province's wildfires.
A Delta staff member and a Delta firefighter have been deployed to Williams Lake where they are assisting the Caribou Regional District Emergency Operations Centre, while six Delta police officers have been deployed to various locations around Williams Lake and 100 Mile House.
"We [staff, and Delta Fire Department] actually met in a tent at last weekend's Tour de Delta to decide how we were going to proceed, what was needed and who would go," said Mayor Lois Jackson.
"We told the province that we were on standby and ready. We have always offered to go when called upon because we know how important it is when you have limited resources and little towns that don't have the equipment and personnel. We are also grateful when others assist us, like they did last year with the Burns Bog fire."
Hundreds of wildfires are burning, many out of control, primarily across the Cariboo region, destroying property and displacing tens of thousands.
Delta police officers are being deployed for four to seven days at a time.
