Weather too cold to fight fire: Only school in Nunavut hamlet destroyed
KUGAARUK, Nunavut — Officials are scrambling to find classroom space for hundreds of children after a suspicious fire in bitter cold destroyed the only school in a remote Arctic hamlet.
“We’ve lost everything here,” said John Ivey, senior administrative official for Kugaaruk, a community of just under 1,000 people on Nunavut’s central Arctic coast.
“The school’s totally gone. Everything in there is gone.
“People are in shock.”