One of Manitoba\u2019s largest First Nations is finalizing its evacuation plan as the community prepares for a flood.<\/p>\n
Peguis First Nation\u2019s Chief Stan Bird says in a video posted online Saturday that his community, located about 180 kilometres north of Winnipeg, will certainly see the nearby Fisher River rise in the coming days.<\/p>\n
He says the severity of flooding is dependent on how hot temperatures get and that the First Nation is declaring a state of emergency.<\/p>\n
He is asking locals to not panic and be prepared, and says an evacuation plan has been developed and is being finalized to avoid chaos.<\/p>\n
The First Nation has more than 10,000 members and roughly 3,800 live on the reserve. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Bird says this year\u2019s flooding could be like the one the community saw in 2022, when roughly 2,000 residents were forced out and hundreds of homes were damaged.<\/p>\n
He says volunteers have been working tirelessly to prevent damage to roughly 225 homes in the looming flood.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is important because we had grandmothers and grandfathers that braved the cold and the long hours to ensure our community \u2014 your community \u2014 was protected. I believe our eldest was 86,\u201d Bird said in the video.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s incredible. It has been a total team effort right from the cooks to the various crews that showed from places like the United States, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Ontario \u2026 It\u2019s been a massive effort thus far, but the hard work must continue.\u201d<\/p>\n
He asked locals to keep an eye out for updates.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Premier Wab Kinew visited the community to help with sandbagging.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Manitoba\u2019s largest First Nations is finalizing its evacuation plan as the community prepares for a flood.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-614686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}