First Nations community holds on as fire threatens
As fast-moving wildfires threaten homes across the Cariboo-Chilcotin the entire town of 100 Mile House has been ordered evacuated. But on a First Nations reserve, several hundred kilometres east, band members say they are left to fight the fires themselves, and will not follow a general evacuation order.
On Sunday Chief Joe Alphonse announced that members of the Tl’etinqox First Nation community of Anaham Reserve would stay behind in efforts to save their homes.
The Gustafsen wildfir
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