By Rochelle Baker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer Danny Masuzumi Sr. shakes his head, recalling the jumble of emotions he experienced as a raging wildfire bore down on the remote K\u2019ahsho Got’ine community of Fort Good Hope, NWT. A year ago, local leaders, other emergency personnel, Masuzumi and his team of Indigenous Guardians had to make a terrifying decision to evacuate with most of the community living alongside the east bank of the Mackenzie River \u2014 or stay and fight the fire along with territorial wildfire crews. They chose to stay. \u201cWe had no hoses, no pumps, no nothing,\u201d said Masuzumi, executive director of the K’ahsho Got’ine Foundation that manages the protection of the community\u2019s new Indigenous and Territorial Protected Area with the help of its Guardian team… <\/p>\n
By Rochelle Baker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer Danny Masuzumi Sr. shakes his head, recalling the jumble of emotions he experienced as a raging wildfire bore down on the remote K\u2019ahsho Got’ine community of Fort Good Hope, NWT. A year ago, local leaders, other emergency personnel, Masuzumi and his team of Indigenous Guardians had to make a terrifying decision to evacuate with most of the community living alongside the east bank of the Mackenzie River \u2014 or stay and fight the fire along with territorial wildfire crews. They chose to stay. \u201cWe had no hoses, no pumps, no nothing,\u201d said Masuzumi, executive director of the K’ahsho Got’ine Foundation that manages the protection of the community\u2019s new Indigenous and Territorial Protected Area with the help of its Guardian team... <\/p>\n