Fort Frances To Host 100 Sandy Lake Evacuees

The Northwestern Ontario town of Fort Frances will host about 100 residents of the Sandy Lake First Nation who are being evacuated due to smoke from nearby forest fires. The evacuees were to be flown out of their remote community on Tuesday and Fort Frances fire Chief Frank Sheppard says they'll be housed at a local hotel. More than 550 Sandy Lake residents have also been evacuated to Thunder Bay, about 600 kilometres southeast of the First Nation community. The province issued an evacuation notice Sunday to get elderly residents, infants and others at risk from smoke to safety.