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It was a terrifying escape for Carl Genaille and other members of a construction crew as an out-of-control fire closed in around them near Sandy Lake in northwestern Ontario.

A construction worker who huddled with his crew inside a smoky shipping container as a northern Ontario wildfire encircled them said he’s happy to be alive and back home with his family in Brandon, about 215 kilometres west of Winnipeg. 

The 19-person crew, made up of employees from Sigfusson Northern, a Winnipeg-based construction company, and Milestone Environmental Contracting Inc., a contracting and construction company with headquarters in Langley, about 50 kilometres southeast of Vancouver, had been working at a job site for a project near Sandy Lake First Nation, a fly-in community located about 600 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay.

Every worker in the crew, except for one, was from Manitoba. 

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