ONTARIO, Aug 17 — Canadian fire crews battled early today to prevent wildfires from reaching the northern city of Yellowknife, where 20,000 residents are leaving after an...
ONTARIO, Aug 17 — Canadian fire crews battled early today to prevent wildfires from reaching the northern city of Yellowknife, where 20,000 residents are leaving after an evacuation order was declared.
The deadline for residents to leave the city is noon local time tomorrow. The Territories, with a population of just 46,000 people, have limited infrastructure and there is only one road out of Yellowknife to the province of Alberta to the south. Canada is enduring its worst wildfire season with more than 1,000 active fires burning across the country, including 230 in the Northwest Territories.
Thousands of residents have already fled smaller communities and the hamlet of Enterprise near the Alberta border was almost entirely destroyed by a blaze on Sunday.
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