One person had been confirmed dead in Wednesday’s fire on the First Nation north of Thunder Bay, Ont. and the bodies of two others who had been unaccounted for were found over the weekend
Two adults and a child have been confirmed dead in a house fire on a remote northwestern Ontario First Nation, its chief said Monday as she called for the government to improve firefighting services in her community.
Two fire trucks that could have helped douse the flames were frozen because the community does not have an adequate building to shelter the vehicles during extremely cold temperatures, Keeper has said. “Our thoughts are with all community members, particularly those who have been directly affected, and First Nation leaders who worked so hard to respond to this event,” Randy Legault-Rankin wrote in a weekend statement.
A 2021 Statistics Canada report commissioned by the National Indigenous Fire Safety Council found First Nations individuals living on reserves are about 10 times more likely to die in a fire than non-Indigenous Canadians.
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