22 provincial firefighters are in Alberta to help out crews battling wildfires.
The Department of Energy and Resource Development says the group met for a pre-deployment briefing on Wednesday afternoon at the Provincial Forest Fire Centre before leaving from the Fredericton airport in the evening.
The crew arrived in Edmonton late Wednesday night and will be sent to the Slave Lake area for a 14-day rotation.
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New Brunswick is part of the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre which helps coordinate mutual aid among provinces.
This province offers help when the conditions make it possible.
A team of 21 firefighters from Nova Scotia are also heading to Alberta.
Several wildfires are burning out of control in Alberta, including a blaze covering 92,000 hectares in the town of High Level.
