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Raging wildfires across Canada are touching communities in deeply personal ways, an estimated one in seven First Nations are facing impacts from smoke, evacuations or fire damage. As the blaze zone expands, these communities are forced to draw on resilience while grappling with systemic gaps in support. Read more to see how Indigenous nations are coping, and what’s being done to help.