🇨🇦 A video of volunteer firefighting operations with an Indigenous community in the province of Quebec is being misrepresented online as evidence of arson
) that the video does not depict arson, but rather volunteer firefighting operations conducted by members of the Opitciwan community of the Atikamekw Nation near the village of Obedjiwan, Quebec.
"I happened to run into the chief of the village who told me how they were fighting the wildfires," Urban told AFP in an email."I asked him if it would be possible to accompany them on the ground." Urban's spokeswoman, Louise Vigouroux, said he was in Canada filming for a Canal+ documentary about environmental issues in different locations around the world. He was in Quebec toabout the preservation of caribou but said he was close to wildfires and wanted to help the Atikamekw fight the flames.
"The trees were cut and water wasn't doing anything," Urban said."Women were crying and praying and men raised their hands symbolically towards the flames while speaking their language as a last hope but we had to evacuate."Screenshot of Leo Urban's original Instagram post taken June 30, 2023 He said Obedjiwan is very remote, with only one accessible road. The provincial fire agency had not been able to reach the community as they focused on other fires, but Atikamekw volunteers have reportedly been
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