Communities across northwestern Ontario are being asked to be "host" ready.The Chief of Emergency Management Ontario, Allison Stuart, stresses they need to be prepared at all time to host evacuees when in need.
Stuart admits they were caught off-guard two years ago when se
veral First Nations had to be evacuated due to the threat of forest fires.
EMO has now drafted a set of guideline that help determine suitable sites.
Fort Frances served as a host for the first time last summer when about one hundred people from Sand Lake First Nation had to be evacuated because of forest fires.
