In a city park, a volunteer-led command post anchors search for missing Indigenous teen

Day and night, volunteers tend to a sacred fire in Edmonton's river valley as the search continues for Samuel Bird, the 14-year-old from Paul First Nation who went missing in west Edmonton in June. The fire is part of a command post set up this month in Dawson Park as a central place to help prepare food for volunteers, collect donations and dispatch people searching by land and water for the missing teen. Many of the volunteers here can personally relate to the pain of Samuel Bird's disappearan