Image | Wasagamack First Nation forest fire

Caption: A forest fire rages near the edges of Wasagamack First Nation, about 470 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg. (Judy Klassen/Facebook)

Image | People from Wasagamack First Nation were flown to safety Thursday.

Caption: People from Wasagamack First Nation were flown to safety Thursday. (Submitted)

Image | Manitoba wildfire evacuees

Caption: Residents from Wasagamack First Nation were taken by boat to St. Theresa Point to escape nearby wildfires. Boats continued to take people late into the evening Tuesday. (Facebook)

Image | boat

Caption: There is no airport in Wasagamack, so evacuees had to take a 20-minute boat ride through the choppy waters of Island Lake to the nearby community of St. Theresa Point to catch a flight out to safety. (Mark Wood Ganabook)

Image | St. Theresa Point airport

Caption: Residents wait to be flown to Brandon or Winnipeg from the airport at St. Theresa Point First Nation. (Sean Kavanagh/CBC)

Image | Children at St. Theresa Point after forest fire evacuation

Caption: Children from Wasagamack First Nation peer at a plane through a chain link fence Wednesday outside the St. Theresa Point First Nation airport. (Trevor Brine/CBC)

Image | Red Cross supplies St. Theresa Point First Nation

Caption: People in St. Theresa Point First Nation unload emergency supplies from the Canadian Red Cross. (Sean Kavanagh/CBC)

Image | People from Wasagamack First Nation were stuck sleeping in airports and school gyms Tuesday and Wedn

Caption: People from Wasagamack First Nation were stuck sleeping in airports and school gyms Tuesday and Wednesday night in Garden Hill First Nation and St. Theresa Point First Nation as they waited to be flown south. (Submitted)

Image | people in line in plane

Caption: Evacuees from Wasagamack First Nation line up at an airport in the nearby community of St. Theresa Point in order to catch a plane out to safety. (Mark Wood Ganabook)

Image | Hercules aircraft arrives in Garden Hill First Nation

Caption: The second of two Hercules aircraft arrives in Garden Hill First Nation Thursday morning to fly forest fire evacuees to southern Manitoba. (Sean Kavanagh/CBC)

Image | A girl checks whether it's safe to breath in St. Theresa Point, Man., after being evacuated from Was

Caption: A girl checks whether it's safe to breathe the air in St. Theresa Point after being evacuated from Wasagamack First Nation. (Trevor Brine/CBC)

Image | Forest fire evacuees land in Winnipeg

Caption: A Canadian Forces Hercules aircraft arrives in Winnipeg on Thursday. The group of forest fire evacuees will stay at the RBC Convention Centre in downtown Winnipeg. (Lyzaville Sale/CBC)

Image | Kids clamber up a fence as rescue planes from Perimeter Aviation land in St. Theresa Point, Man.

Caption: Kids clamber up a fence as rescue planes from Perimeter Aviation prepare to fly out of Winnipeg back up north. (Bert Savard/CBC)

Image | First Nation fire evacuees arrive in Winnipeg

Caption: Young girls walk off the tarmac in Winnipeg, where a Canadian Forces Hercules aircraft carried forest fire evacuees from Garden Hill First Nation. (Lyzaville Sale/CBC)

Image | Shelley Harper

Caption: Shelley Harper of Wasagamack arrived in Brandon on Wednesday with 10 children. (Riley Laychuk/CBC)

Image | Volunteers set up cots in Winnipeg Convention Centre for fire evacuees

Caption: Volunteers with Winnipeg watchgroup Bear Clan Patrol set up cots in the RBC Convention Centre on Wednesday to prepare for the wave of arrivals. (CBC)

Image | First Nation fire evacuees arrive at RBC Convention Centre

Caption: Forest fire evacuees line up in halls of the RBC Convention Centre, where they will stay until the fire dies down. (Caroline Barghout/CBC)

Image | Winnipeg North Soccer complex

Caption: Evacuees were expected to fill the Winnipeg Soccer North indoor complex Friday morning. (Sabrina Carnevale/CBC)

Image | Forest fire zone in northern Manitoba

Caption: Communities of St. Theresa Point, Wasagamack and Garden Hill are about 470 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg. (CBC)

Image | John sauder rain forecast

Caption: 'Friday's rainfall up to early Sat morning. Should help. Hoping lightning doesn't make it worse," tweeted CBC Manitoba meteorologist John Sauder. The Island Lake area comprises Wasagamack, St. Theresa Point and Garden Hill. Sauder says about 11 millimetres of rain is expected in the area. (@johnsauderCBC)