'I felt this was the right place to be, until I saw the flames'

'I felt this was the right place to be, until I saw the flames'

Cheyanne Watkinson shares her story of the 2017 Elephant Hill Wildfire. Photo by Jess Beaudin Cheyanne, a communications student at Thompson Rivers University, has had life that’s been shaped by playing on the ice and fighting fires. She loves to play matches and organise fundraisers within the community. Cheyanne is also interested in audio storytelling and wants to record the oral histories and knowledge from the St’át’imc culture and her fami…