Residents fleeing the fires filled roads and flights as they rushed to beat an evacuation deadline.
Residents in the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories were rushing to beat a deadline to evacuate their homes on Friday as one of hundreds of wildfires raging in the territories moved closer to the city of 20,000 people.
Canada has seen a record number of wildfires this year — contributing to choking smoke in parts of the US — with more than 5,700 fires burning more than 137,000 square kilometres from one end of Canada to the other, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. Ms Alty said some good news is the fire did not advance as far as originally expected Thursday with crews working hard getting firebreaks in.Mike Westwick, a fire information officer, said water bombers were being used to fight the flames.At the Big River Service Station about 300 kilometres south of Yellowknife, the line of vehicles waiting for fuel was “phenomenal”, employee Linda Croft said. “You can’t see the end of it.
A woman whose family evacuated the town of Hay River on Sunday told CBC that their vehicle began to melt as they drove through embers, the front window cracked and the vehicle filled with smoke that made it difficult to see the road ahead. The Health and Social Services Authority said most long-term care patients were transferred to institutions to the south.
Evacuation flights are only for those who cannot leave by road, who are immunocompromised or who have conditions that put them at higher risk, officials said.
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