Amidst the encroaching Red Lake 12 wildfire, Sandy Lake First Nation officials initiated an evacuation order as the flames approached the community in northwestern Ontario. The Prime Minister confirmed that the Canadian Armed Forces would assist in evacuating residents. Currently, while 500 individuals have been evacuated, around 1,000 priority residents, including those with health issues and young children, await rescue. A construction crew previously trapped by the fire managed to escape, but many are left traumatized. Military aircraft, including CC-130H Hercules planes, have been deployed to aid in the evacuation efforts.
Sandy Lake officials issued an evacuation order Saturday, after the fire, known as Red Lake 12, was spotted moving northward toward the community in the province's Kenora district.
A group of 19 construction workers, 18 of them from Manitoba, are safe after they were trapped by a wildfire in a construction site near Sandy Lake First Nation in northwestern Ontario on Saturday.
Kakegamic said Canadian Armed Forces aircraft have so far taken out 500 Sandy Lake residents, but that there remain roughly 1,000 more 'priority' residents looking to be evacuated.
'It just engulfed on them real fast,' Sandy Lake First Nation Chief Delores Kakegamic told CBC on Sunday, adding that the construction crew had been trying to help out by creating barriers to stop the fire from spreading.
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