Ashes fly into the air as Ron Bellerose sifts through the rubble of his destroyed home.
A bunch of coils are all that remain of his mattress, while a charred stove and fridge stand nearby. There is nothing left of the 63-year-old’s house in East Prairie Métis Settlement in northern Alberta after a wildfire tore through the community last month, destroying his home and 13 others.
Bellerose comes back every other day to clean up and work on the property.
“It’s unbelievable,” he said. “You want to cry … you can’t put it in words.”
He fled after a mandatory evacuation order with some
