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Posted: Jul 04, 2021 5:54 PM PT | Last Updated: July 5
The Katzie First Nation in the Fraser Valley community of Pitt Meadows has organized a donation centre to collect goods for the evacuees from the Lytton wildfire. (Joel Ballard/CBC News)
After a fire ravaged Lytton, B.C., earlier this week, the public has stepped up to help with donations in a big way. Groups, individuals and First Nations are gathering funds and supplies to help hundreds of people who fled as their homes burned on June 30.
Chelsea Carlson works with the Savage Society, a group of Indigenous performers who use myths, historical stories and contemporary tales to create theatre and film. They have performed in Lytton in B.C. s southern Interior for the last several years.