Efforts are underway to get a temporary nursing station built in Cat Lake First Nation in northwestern Ontario, but as spring quickly approaches, it’s a race against time to get supplies to the remote community using the winter road.
The Margaret Gray Nursing Station “appears to be a total loss” from the Saturday night fire, according to the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service. No injuries were reported and the cause of the fire hasn’t been determined.
About 650 people live in the Ojibway community about 440 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay along the Albany River.
With Cat Lake already under a boil-water advisory since Feb. 26, efforts to save
