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A brace of 13-year-olds from Webequie First Nation person been charged successful transportation with a occurrence astatine the distant community's airdrome terminal, resulting successful astir fractional a cardinal dollars successful damages. Here's what we cognize astir the incident, which has near the northwestern Ontario assemblage scrambling to get a impermanent terminal successful place.
About fractional a cardinal dollars successful damages astatine Webequie First Nation's airdrome terminal
Sarah Law · CBC News
· Posted: Apr 28, 2025 6:36 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago
A brace of 13-year-olds from Webequie First Nation person been charged successful transportation with a occurrence astatine the distant community's airdrome terminal, resulting successful astir fractional a cardinal dollars successful damages.
The Nishnawbe Aski Police Service (NAPS) says officers received a telephone for work astir the blaze successful the northwestern Ontario assemblage connected Saturday evening.
"When officers arrived, they observed and confirmed the terminal gathering to beryllium connected fire. Community firefighters were besides dispatched to assistance enactment retired the occurrence and halt it from spreading to adjacent structures," NAPS said successful a quality merchandise issued Monday.
The occurrence was brought nether power earlier 2 a.m. connected Sunday, but the gathering sustained important damage.
Over the weekend, 2 younker suspects were identified. NAPS said the archetypal was located and arrested astatine a residence connected Sunday, portion the 2nd fishy turned themselves successful that afternoon.
The 13-year-olds, some male, were each charged with arson — harm to property, and 2 counts of mischief implicit $5,000.
Fewer than 400 radical unrecorded successful Webequie First Nation, which is astir 540 kilometres northbound of Thunder Bay. The Oji-Cree assemblage is portion of Treaty 9.
The NAPS transgression investigations portion is starring the ongoing investigation. The suspects appeared successful bail tribunal connected Monday and were remanded into custody with aboriginal quality dates, said NAPS.
Plans underway for impermanent terminal
Webequie First Nation is lone accessible by level oregon wintertime road.
The assemblage posted a nationalist announcement connected its Facebook leafage Monday greeting astir the fire, saying the airdrome terminal gathering "is not harmless for usage astatine this time."
"Webequie First Nation Chief and Council are moving intimately with the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) to put a impermanent structure for airdrome operations. MTO is besides moving connected plans for a imperishable caller terminal," it said.
"Thank you for your knowing and patience arsenic we enactment done this situation."
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Sarah Law is simply a CBC News newsman based successful Thunder Bay, Ont., and has besides worked for newspapers and online publications elsewhere successful the province. Have a communicative tip? You tin scope her astatine [email protected]
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