Community members spoke to the Star at the largely deserted reserve, home to more than 300 residents in homes lined up on a two-street grid on the lakeshore.
GULL BAY FIRST NATION, Ont.—When raging wildfires forced Gull Bay to evacuate back in 1980, Melvin Shonias saw the thick black smoke suffocating his community and took off.
But his mother, as neighbour Rod Wigwas tells it, was the only person who refused to leave.
Miiyah Paavola fled her home in northwestern Ontario this week. “If we had waited any longer, we would have been dead,” she says.
A northern Ontario First Nation is evacuating as provincial fire crews battle a spreading wildfire south of Timmins.
THUNDER BAY - The smoke that blanketed Whitesand First Nation became thicker, darker and more acrid within hours.
Forest fires in northwestern Ontario have devastated several communities, forcing widespread evacuations and destroying homes and…
The OPP says residents in Ignace, Crystal Lake and the Highway 633 area should prepare for possible evacuations.
Residents of a northern Ontario First Nation are returning to their homes as fire crews have declared a wildfire south of Timmins…
