The Department of Conservation and Recreation received a request for assistance last week.
Gov. Maura Healey and administration officials sent 11 state wildland firefighters to Quebec to help with the wildfires that have burned in Canada since the beginning of June and have affected the air quality in the northeast United States.
"Over the last several years we have seen the impacts of the climate crisis here at home and around the world, in the forms of extreme weather and increasingly severe wildfires that continue to ravage our forests," said Healey. Parts of New England are still experiencing notable impacts to air quality as wildfires rage in Quebec.
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