Wildfires continue to burn around Kasabonika, despite rainfall

By Maya Ekman, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, NWOnewswatch.com KASABONIKA – Recent rainfall has been helpful to wildland firefighters working to protect Kasabonika First Nation. The community “is currently being affected by a cluster of six wildland fires of varying sizes, and located between six kilometres to the south and as far as 20 kilometres away to the north-west of the community,” Chris Marchand, regional fire information officer, told Newswatch. “The Kasabonika Lake Weather Station recorded approximately five to ten millimetres of overnight rainfall, which definitely temporaril…