PHOTOS: Lush Ramsey Bay campground surrounded by charred forest
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Helen Hamm will never forget standing on her dock while watching a massive wildfire churn across Weyakwin Lake.
“When you see those fires or even hear them close by, you know. We were on one dock and you could hear the fire just roaring. That’s the scary part. It’s like a big whoosh. It’s loud,” Hamm, the owner of Ramsey Bay Campground, recalled about the day they got evacuated.
It was the only day during the entire ordeal she ever felt scared. Around Ramsey Bay, the road is bleak. An island is burned but the campground is green and lush.
In Weyakwin a week ago, the community was surrounded by a wall of fire and although fires still burn in the area, the immediate threat has passed and people are returning home. Evacuees from La Loche, Dillon, Michel Bay, St. George’s Hill, Ramsey Bay, Timber Bay, and Montreal Lake Cree Nation are also going home.
