Inside the wildfire co-ordination centre in Fredericton, experts like Roger Collet track live data about weather patterns, smoke plumes and hotspots to manage firefighters and other resources being deployed to fight wildfires.
Weather patterns, GIS mapping and heat signatures determine when, where firefighters are deployed
Katelin Belliveau · CBC
· Posted: Aug 20, 2025 6:24 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
Roger Collet, the province’s wildfire prevention officer, says all of the planning to fight active wildfires comes from within one building in Fredericton. (Silas Brown/CBC News)
The brainpower behind New Brunswick’s plan of attack against wildfires is hard at work inside the Hugh John Flemming Forestry Centre in Fredericton.
Roger Collet’s eyes dart back and forth among a dozen computer and television screens.
As a wildfire prevention officer, he is the man behind the curtain, managing how firefighters and other resources are sent out to different locations based on weather patterns, burn tracking and other data he monitors in real time.
“We start 7 … in the morning, we’re here till 9:30 at night,” said Collet, who has worked with the centre for 10 years.
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