Two arrested after God’s Lake Narrows building fire
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Two men are facing arson charges after the former band office in God’s Lake Narrows was set on fire Monday.
RCMP were sent to the scene of a disturbance involving two men at the building at about 1:30 p.m.
“It was reported that one male was armed with a weapon and threatening to light the former band office on fire,” Mounties said Wednesday.
The building — a supply storage site that contained historical records — was on fire when officers arrived. The building is believed to be a total loss, RCMP said.
A 39-year-old God’s Lake Narrows man and a 45-year-old Crane River First Nation man have been charged in connection with the incident.
God’s Lake First Nation is located about 550 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg.
The First Nation and nearby community on the shore of Gods Lake are home to about 1,500 people. The former band office is the third building to burn in the area, with two churches levelled in recent fires.
Around 3:30 a.m. Sept. 3, the local United church was found engulfed in flames. That fire occurred roughly 16 months after a blaze destroyed a Roman Catholic church.
RCMP told the Free Press in September it did not believe those fires were linked, although it had not determined a cause for either blaze.
The First Nation, which is accessible by air, boat and winter road, had three churches before the fires. The last remaining church is Pentecostal.