Foreign Firefighters Fight Flames, Fatigue and Get ‘Eaten Alive’ by Mosquitoes

Foreign Firefighters Fight Flames, Fatigue and Get ‘Eaten Alive’ by Mosquitoes
Hunter Sousa, 18, from Maine, poses for a photo after arriving in Shubenacadie, N.S., on June 3, 2023, to assist with fighting wildfires in Nova Scotia. The Canadian Press/Kelly Clark
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Eighteen-year-old Hunter Sousa from Maine celebrated his high school graduation by hopping in a truck and heading to Nova Scotia to fight the biggest forest fire in the province’s history.

Sousa works for the Maine forest service as an on-call firefighter, but had never before fought a fire. The call from his superior came on a Thursday.