Efforts to repatriate members of Sandy Lake First Nation are set to begin this Friday. The efforts could take up to two weeks to complete, according to a Facebook post by the First Nation's communications team.

More than 2,000 members of the community were forced to evacuate last month as northwestern Ontario's largest wildfire, Red Lake 12, encroached on the First Nation. The fire has spread across 195,670 hectares as of Tuesday, according to Ontario's Aviation, Forest Fire and Emergency Servic…