One of the last images Yoanick Dion has of Oujé-Bougoumou is of firefighters digging trenches outside the town as an eerie orange haze filled the air and ash fell from the sky.
On one side of that trench, a line of defence against the blaze, is the Cree community. On the other side is the bush that Dion and so many of his family members and friends cherish.
Dion says he fears for his camp, built in 1988 and handed down by his grandmother through various family members.
The structure in the woods, which he uses as a base to hunt and fish, is now located
