Northwest Territories' environment minister ordered the city's nearly 20,000 residents to leave by Friday as raging wildfires are expected to reach by weekend.
Yellowknife residents leave the city on Highway 3, the only highway in or out of the community. / Photo: Reuters
"Unfortunately, our wildfire situation has taken another turn for the worse with a fire burning west of Yellowknife now representing a real threat to the city," Shane Thompson, the Northwest Territories' environment minister, told a news conference on Wednesday.
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