Meet the Young Canadians Spending Summer on the Frontlines of Wildfire Fight

Meet the Young Canadians Spending Summer on the Frontlines of Wildfire Fight
Lakeland College firefighter training students and staff pose in this undated handout photo. The Canadian Press/HO, Lakeland College
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When Reese Lange was in kindergarten, she dreamed of joining the police. But it was in high school that she realized her true calling.

The 21-year-old is now part of an army of young men and women, many of them college students, who are spending their summer battling what could be one of Canada’s worst fire seasons on record.