On Thursday around 60 people including elders and those with serious health issues as well as some of their family members were evacuated from the community to Thompson.  They returned to York Factory on Saturday.  Jason Small from the Red Cross explains the process to help out communities that are in crisis situations.  He says usually the First Nation makes a request to the federal government and the chief and council and the federal government will discuss and determine what’s needed and once its seen if there’s an evacuation required or some other disaster response help is required the federal government will then reach out to the Red Cross and activate them based on the agreement they have with the federal government.

The outage also impacted their water treatment facility so the Red Cross flew in more than 77 hundred liters of bottled water.