Neskantaga wildfire evacuees to fly home from Toronto soon

By Mike Stimpson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, SNnewswatch.com NESKANTAGA — Evacuees will fly back to Neskantaga First Nation terrain Wednesday and Thursday, Chief Gary Quisess says. “Yeah, we’re going to start flying people home tomorrow,” Quisess said Tuesday in a phone interview. The First Nation, about 430 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay, began evacuating medically vulnerable members on July 18 as smoke from wildfires worsened air quality. Another factor in the evacuation decision and Neskantaga council’s declaration of a local state of emergency, Quisess said, was the shutdow…