Adult dies in residential fire in Barren Lands First Nation
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One person died and several became homeless after a rash of house fires on two northern First Nations on New Year’s Day.
An adult was found dead in a home on Barren Lands First Nation Tuesday, a day after the structure caught fire.
The blaze began around 5:15 p.m., and the home became fully engulfed by flames by the time a fire truck arrived. Several occupants had escaped, but one person was unaccounted for, RCMP saidWednesday.
Before a fire could be extinguished, five trailers were destroyed and a sixth damaged on Barren Lands First Nation on New Year’s Day. (RCMP photos)
Officers from the Thompson RCMP detachment arrived in Barren Lands the following day to find a dead adult inside the destroyed house.
The community is located about 1,000 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, near the Saskatchewan border.
RCMP notified the fire commissioner and chief medical examiner, and they continue to investigate.
Hours earlier, about 470 kilometres south of Barren Lands, RCMP said a suspected arsonist torched six homes in the community of Moose Lake, also known as Mosakahiken Cree Nation.
Around 7:40 a.m., RCMP officers were alerted to a residential fire on Sinclair Street.
When officers arrived, the flames had spread to neighbouring homes. Five trailers were destroyed and a sixth was damaged.
No on was injured.
Tyler Searle is a multimedia producer who writes for the Free Press’s city desk. A graduate of Red River College Polytechnic’s creative communications program, he wrote for the Stonewall Teulon Tribune, Selkirk Record and Express Weekly News before joining the paper in 2022. Read more about Tyler.
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