Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation will remain evacuated for at least two more weeks due to the ongoing wildfires, and officials say 40 structures within the community have been damaged.
Jeremy Standingribbon, a single dad and a member of the SLCN, was one of the people evacuated. He described the moment as he saw the fires approaching the reserve. At first, he said he didn’t know what to do.
“I was thinking that we’d ,” Standingribbon said. “Wherever the flames were coming, I was just going to run from them.”“We heard that there were looters that stayed behind. Well, everybody evacuated the reserve, so people have had houses busted into people had quads stolen.“Then they started putting up these barricades and hiring people for security,” Standingribbon said. He is working at one of the boundaries.
Standingribbon added that the situation isn’t all bad, as the support from others in the community has been overwhelming. “The … best thing to come out of this is how the community together and rearrange things so quickly and how everybody showed support for those that are still out fighting the fire, and those who are keeping the other houses that are been looted or houses that have been burned down, keeping them safe from other people.”
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