CBC News
CBC News
@CBCNews·4.7M subscribers·44.8K videos

‘You could just about taste it’: Armstrong, Ont., evacuee describes thick wildfire smoke

Posted

July 15, 2026

Views

11,966

Likes

94

Engagement

0.79%

Search the Record

Indexed

Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.

Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.

Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line

YouTube Description

as posted by the channel

Wildfires fueled by extreme heat have triggered multiple evacuations in northwestern Ontario. Residents of Armstrong and Whitesand First Nation were ordered to evacuate late on Monday. Diana Laybourne was evacuated from Armstrong to Thunder Bay and shares what it’s like being forced from her home.

»»» Subscribe to CBC News to watch more videos

For breaking news, video, audio and indepth coverage

Follow CBC News on TikTok

Subscribe to CBC News on Snapchat

Subscribe to CBC News on WhatsApp

Download the CBC News app for iOS

Download the CBC News app for Android

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»

For more than 80 years, CBC News has been the source Canadians turn to, to keep them informed about their communities, their country and their world. Through regional and national programming on multiple platforms, including CBC Television, CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CBCNews.ca, mobile and on-demand, CBC News and its internationally recognized team of award-winning journalists deliver the breaking stories, the issues, the analyses and the personalities that matter to Canadians.

Guests & Subjects Covered

‘You could just about taste it’Ontario ResidentsWhitesand First NationMonday Diana LaybourneThunder BayFollow CBC NewsTikTok SubscribeSnapchat Subscribe

Sentinel Indexing in Progress

Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.

All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.