Minnesota Firefighters Return From Battling Canadian Wildfires: "Some Of The Worst I've Ever Seen"

CBS Minnesota

August 14, 2025

Minnesotans are once again answering the call to help with the massive response to the ongoing Canadian wildfires.

"Some of the worst I've ever seen by the sheer size of the fires," Joe Meyer, an advanced fire training specialist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, recalled to WCCO. "Just to see the walls of fire that were 100 feet over the treetops and a mile long and tearing through the forest up there. It was amazing to see it actually."

Meyer, a 30-year veteran at the DNR, was among a crew of 20 DNR firefighters who just returned from a two-week rotation in northern Manitoba.

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