Post-wildfire stress affects everyone - The Ashcroft

Post-wildfire stress affects everyone - The Ashcroft

This article first appeared in the Journal in August 2017. When Dr. Geneviève Belleville — a professor of psychology at Laval University — hears about what people in the area have experienced in recent weeks with the Elephant Hill wildfire, she says it is very similar to what was witnessed in the Fort McMurray community after the wildfire in 2016. “Everybody has been evacuated, or has been touched by the problem,” she says. “Everybody knows some…