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Originally Posted by Redliner
My brother works emergency services for the MD of Pincher Creek and has been going pretty much non-stop for the past 48 hrs now. He also patrols at CMR in the winter and says Castle has had structural fire crews on standby for the last 3 days. As of late yesterday the nearest fire was on Rainy Ridge, ~8 Km away from the ski hill, but they were expecting it to grow last night. Last I heard from him at about 0400 this morning the fire was aggressively moving northwards towards the Castle area but I haven't heard anything since.
I know they have a fair amount of help down there right now (I heard almost 200 people in the Waterton area) but Cardston and Pincher are small communities and you'd have to think that fighting this thing on multiple fronts must have them stretched pretty thin.
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I can't find the tweet now to give the accurate numbers, but hundreds of firefighters from Calgary, Lethbridge, Taber, Coaldale etc. have all joined in to help this fight. Sounds like the numbers grew quite a bit after midnight.