At first, all Miiyah Paavola could see was a thick wall of smoke.

Residents of one First Nations community went door to door warning neighbors before fleeing by boat. More than 900 fires continue burning.

Miiyah Paavola fled her home in northwestern Ontario this week. “If we had waited any longer, we would have been dead,” she says.

At first, all Miiyah Paavola could see was a thick wall of smoke.

At first, all Miiyah Paavola could see was a thick wall of smoke.