A remote northwestern Ontario First Nation lacked the facilities to extinguish a house fire that left one dead and two others unaccounted for, the local chief said as she called for government help in bolstering fire services.
Shirley Lynne Keeper of Pikangikum First Nation said the community’s two fire trucks were frozen when the blaze erupted on Wednesday, adding there is no adequate building to shelter the vehicles.
Keeper said residents were still grappling with the overwhelming grief that set in after the deadly 2016 fire. Last month, a 10-year-old girl also died after a house fire on the Weenusk First Nation, a northern community in Peawanuck, Ont. That includes Sandy Lake First Nation, where three children died in a fire last January. Mishkeegogamang First Nation, meanwhile, lost four residents in 2014, including two young children.
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