HIGH PRAIRIE, Alta. — Carrol Johnston points at flowering peonies in her otherwise charred garden as she walks through her property in a northern Alberta Metis…
The East Prairie Metis Settlement lost about 40 homes, of which 14 were inhabited at the time of the wildfire, says Coun. Reva Jaycox.
“The stove works. A nice gentleman gave us a fridge and it works,” she says of their temporary home. “The rest is basically cleaning.” Bellerose says he was the last person to evacuate and the first one back, only to find his home was gone. In 2019, the Alberta government cut a program of elite firefighters who are trained to rappel from helicopters to get at wildfires while they still only covered a few hectares. That program once had 63 rapattack firefighters stationed around the province and cutting it was expected to save the government $1.4 million.
Even with a devastating wildfire, people of the Metis settlement say the land is their home and will remain so.
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