A team of 21 Tasmanian firefighters and emergency response personnel are being sent overseas this week to assist in battling the devastating wildfires that have engulfed western Canada.
The Northern Alberta region is currently grappling with over 200 wildfires, spanning an area of more than 1.8 million hectares.
Highly trained individuals from Tasmania Fire Service, Tasmania SES, Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service and Sustainable Timber Tasmania will be involved in firefighting, incident management, planning and public information and communications roles.
They will join a larger group of nearly 200 individuals from Australia and New Zealand, forming an international contingent.
Departing in two groups, the Tasmanian team will leave Hobart and travel to Brisbane for briefings before making their way to Canada.
The deployment is expected to last five weeks.
Alberta, with a population of over four million, has declared a state of emergency as nearly 100 wildfires continue to burn, some of which remain out of control, according to the BBC.
Since May 4, approximately 782,000 hectares of land have been consumed by the fires.
