More than 200 wildland firefighters have been mobilized by the National Interagency Fire Center to help fight the Fort McMurray fire in Canada, with five of the crews flying on a Canadian aircraft out of NIFC in Boise this morning, and another flying out of Missoula, Mont. “We have a bilateral firefighting assistance agreement with the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, which works well when either country is in need of wildland fire suppression resources,” said Dan Buckley, NIFC’s National Multi-Agency Coordinating Group chair. “Canada has assisted the U.S. many times in the past, so as soon as Canada requested assistance, we quickly accommodated their request.”