Sandy Lake residents evacuated to Cornwall can’t wait to go home [Video]

Coun. Allan Rae of the Sandy Lake First Nation is 1,600 kilometres from home and worried about his wife and two children.

He hasn’t heard from them since he evacuated with members of his community as out-of-control wildfires encroached on Saturday. 

“I think the phone might be out by now,” he said on Tuesday, speaking from outside a conference centre in Cornwall, Ont., where 377 evacuees from the remote fly-in community in northwest Ontario are now staying. 

“Somebody needs to look after them,” he said of the tough decision to leave his own family to care for evacuated community members who find themselves in an unfamiliar city without knowing when they’ll be able to return home. 

Sandy Lake officials issued an evacuation order …