'Not afraid to stay': The Canadians taking fighting wildfires into their own hands
He checked on elders in his community who also stayed behind, and he fuelled up four boats down on the lake in case they needed a quick escape."This is everything I've built in my 58 years," Wigwas, a councillor from Gull Bay First Nation, told the BBC. "I'm just not going to run away and let it burn."Canada has seen some of its worst fire seasons in recent years, and experienced its most destructive on record in 2023, when blazes tore through forest land roughly the size of Syria. As of this August, more than 750 wildfires are actively burning across the country.The impact has been felt as far as the US Midwest, where smoke had choked the air in cities.
- ▪He checked on elders in his community who also stayed behind, and he fuelled up four boats down on the lake in case they needed a quick escape."This is everything I've built in my 58 years," Wigwas, a councillor from Gull Bay First Nation,
- ▪"I'm just not going to run away and let it burn."Canada has seen some of its worst fire seasons in recent years, and experienced its most destructive on record in 2023, when blazes tore through forest land roughly the size of Syria.
- ▪As of this August, more than 750 wildfires are actively burning across the country.The impact has been felt as far as the US Midwest, where smoke had choked the air in cities.
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'Not afraid to stay': The Canadians taking fighting wildfires into their own handsImage source, Supplied by Sonja LeverkusByNadine YousifSenior Canada reporterPublished2 minutes agoWhen a wildfire broke out near his First Nation community in northern Ontario, Hubert Wigwas decided to stay put.He put sprinklers on his roof to extinguish falling embers. He checked on elders in his community who also stayed behind, and he fuelled up four boats down on the lake in case they needed a quick escape."This is everything I've built in my 58 years," Wigwas, a councillor from Gull Bay First Nation, told the BBC.
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