Nosipho Mpande is one of 120 women in a second group of 400 South African firefighters who have arrived in Canada to help with the extreme wildfires.
She joins about 2 000 firefighters from around the world and other provinces who’ve offered to help Alberta. Mpande is a previously unemployed South African youth trained into a professional firefighter by the Working on Fire Programme.
Richardo Jacobs, also one of the second group of South African firefighters who have arrived in Canada, told the BBC, ‘I will go out there and make the country proud and help and assist where I can. I’m also doing this for my family, for my kids. They’re proud of me.’
As his son helped him pack for his brave journey, Lulamile Nongawuze told the BBC, ‘I’ve seen on TV that Canada is burning like nobody’s business. I just hope that God will guide me and protect me.
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