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"Attawapiskat isn't suffering an air-quality crisis, so the Northern Ontario community won't be evacuated, the federal government says.

That leaves the isolated First Nations hamlet scrambling to figure out what to do after it closed two schools and declared a state of emergency because of fuel fumes wafting from the demolition site of a nearby former school.

About 400 children can't go to class, and the local education authority is struggling to ensure Grade 8 and 12 students can still graduate.

Susan Bertrand, a spokeswoman for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), told Sun Media that for a community to declare a state of emergency, there must be a "present or imminent danger."

But air-quality monitoring by Health Canada before, during and after the demolition of the old school reveals no such threat, said Bertrand. "We are not evacuating the community."

Attawapiskat's former school sits atop the remains of an underground fuel leak from 1979. It was closed in 2000, and public school students were transferred to portable classrooms. Nine years later, their classes are still held in portables. "