While last week's stretch of sunny weather made a lot of folks happy, especially those who wanted to spend time playing outdoors, it also kept a number of Firefighters in Eastern Maine quite busy, providing a very challenging start to this year's wildfire season.
Assistant Fire Chief, Cody Sullivan with the Hermon Fire Department says that when fire crews are called away to deal with something like a wildfire, that spreads the crucial resources of equipment and manpower very thin in a lot of Maine communities.
"There's been a lot of news recently...with the staffing shortages for volunteer and career fire departments that everyone struggling with right now, we're going further and further to help other departments out when these fires do pop up."