DEC ranger from Suffolk talks Canadian wildfire firefighting experience
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John Scott, a forest ranger based in Sayville with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, spoke on Monday about his experiences in Canada fighting the wildfires and how different it was from fighting fires on Long Island. Credit: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation