Overview
- More than 700 residents have been flown out so far, with officials aiming to relocate roughly 2,300 people from the fly-in community.
- Kingston is hosting about 200 evacuees, with earlier flights moving people through Timmins and Kapuskasing and a larger shift planned to Niagara Falls where hotel space is available.
- Replacement pumps have been installed at the water treatment plant, and Indigenous Services Canada says repairs and water testing are underway.
- A sewage backup forced the only clinic to relocate to a school where it runs at about 40% capacity, complicating investigation of a gastrointestinal outbreak.
- Chief Hosea Wesley says the response from federal and provincial governments is too slow and that the Canadian Armed Forces have not committed to assist with flights or bottled water.