On July 13, residents of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation in Northern Ontario faced a rapidly approaching 350,000-hectare wildfire. With no time to wait for official evacuation orders or government transport, just over two dozen people fled by boat, carrying only what they could hold. While all survived, their community was completely destroyed. The political response has blamed climate change, but the disaster was also a predictable result of an emergency management system that treats speed as the gold standard while structurally excluding marginalized communities.