An early morning explosion destroyed the teacher’s complex in Pikangikum First Nation June 17.
“No one was home at the time of the explosion,” explained Pikangikum First Nation CEO Gordon Peters. “We’re lucky no one was unjured.”
Gordon said the community was awakened to the sound of an explosion.
The Ontario Provincial Police investigated the incident.
“A report was done … but I haven’t gotten to see it yet,” Peters said.
Gordon could only guess as to what the cause of the explosion was.
“There is talk around town it was a propane explosion but no one knows for sure,” he said.
“That is part of the investigation.”
Gordon said a nearby home was also damaged by the explosion.
“The windows all blew out by the force,” Gordon said.
When I was a boy growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast, I was deathly afraid of looking at the full moon.
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