Indigenous communities, who make up 5 per cent of the population, have faced 42 per cent of all fire-related evacuations in Canada between 1980 and 2021
reported that morning. When she reached the scene, she saw a big black cloud of smoke across the Albany River to the southwest.community for several days when the wind suddenly picked up and the blaze went out of control. Within a half hour of Chief Kataquapit arriving, the fire jumped across the river to the western side of Sinclair Island, where Fort Albany is located.
Indigenous fire specialist for Parks Canada, fire research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service and Métis woman from Treaty 8. “A good part of our territory was burned,” Mr. Mequish said. “We, the First Nations, the Atikamekw with our ties to our territory, it had a big impact on our community. We still practise a lot of our way of life. All that has been affected in our community.”recommended that 400 vulnerable community members evacuate. Grand Chief Constant Awashish of the Conseil de la Nation Atikamekw said between 250 and 300 of these members chose to leave for other parts of the province, either Roberval, Que.
Wildfire evacuations last on average 8.8 days, according to a coming research paper by Ms. Cardinal Christianson and her colleagues, however some can last several months. Air evacuations were found to last longer on average because of “additional complexities.” the neighbouring Indigenous communities of N’Dilo and Dettah, who together make up a majority Indigenous population.Mac Lai/Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistryin the medical journal BMJ Open in 2021, used comparative data from 2012 to 2015. It showed that the three communities hit a peak PM 2.5 level of 320.3 micrograms per cubic metre of air, with 43 days above 25 micrograms – far higher than the daily 12 to 15 micrograms average recommended by the World Health Organization.
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