It is, as with so much of the way Indigenous people are expected to live, outrageous. How it is they have not risen up in rage is a mystery
They are sitting ducks — the innocent Indigenous children, of course, but also their parents or, as in the case of the latest awful house fire on a First Nation, their long-time foster mother.
Consider how inured Indigenous people are to the deadly toll of the fires on their reserves. Morris’s spokesman, Sam McKay, told Paola Loriggio of the Canadian Press in a story published last Friday that the community has a fire truck that doesn’t work, a fire hall that wasn’t finished and no fire hoses.
Add to that the fact that many in the north — KI is about 600 kilometers north of Thunder Bay — on isolated reserves rely on generators and diesel fuel for heat, and you have a recipe for disaster.Two years ago, two fine Toronto Star reporters, Alicja Siekierska and Jesse Winter, did a special project on the outrageous death toll from fire on Canadian First Nations.
Where from 1996-2005, the average fire death rate per million people in Ontario was 8.6, on First Nations land for the same period, the fire death rate was 72.3 per million people. In 2010, the federal government under Stephen Harper stopped tracking the fire death toll on First Nations, ostensibly to “ease the reporting burden.”
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