Thursday, July 14, 2011

Deer Lake Residents Go Home

(Ministry of Natural Resources photo)

Residents of Deer Lake are returning home - a week after being evacuated from the remote community because of smoke from forest fire.

But residents of Sandy Lake, Cat Lake, North Spirit Lake, Kee-way-win and Koocheching remain on evacuation alert.

There were four new fires in the Far north were reported last night.

There remain no fire activity in the Rainy River district.