A group of fire fighters being dispatched to a help in the case of a disaster is fairly common. But this time an Illinois group of wildfire experts was deployed to Montana to assist with wildfires out west. The Illinois Wildland Crew was gone for 2 weeks to work the fire lines. Tim Schweizer from the Department of Natural Resources says the team receives top notch training.
Big sky country isn’t the first place the team has been deployed, they have assisted in fires in Minnesota, Georgia and Arizona.
