Neskantaga First Nation chief says his northern Ontario community had to be evacuated again after a contractor hired by the federal government caused a sewage flood at the community’s only nursing station.

Gary Quisess says Neskantaga residents had to leave earlier this month for the second time this summer, just days after they returned home following a wildfire evacuation.

He says families from his community are staying in crowded hotel rooms in Toronto and they want to go back to their homes as soon as possible.

Quisess says the fly-in community declared a state of emergency after a contractor damaged the septic system under a nursing station, which is the community’s only health-care facility.

Neskantaga officials say the damage caused raw sewage to back up and fill the basement of the nursing station.

The community was also evacuated in July as wildfires ravaged parts of northern Ontario.