Canada Wildfire
VANCOUVER, British Columbia: Firefighters battling wildfires in western Canada received help from reinforcements and milder weather Saturday, after the nation's worst fire season on record destroyed structures, fouled the air with thick smoke and prompted evacuation orders for tens of thousands of residents.Flames were being held at bay 15 kilometers from Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories, and weary firefighters had a reprieve around Kelowna in British Columbia.
Yellowknife has been a virtual ghost town since a majority of the city's 20,000 residents started to flee following an evacuation order issued Wednesday evening, officials said. Long caravans of cars choked the main highway for days and those who couldn't take to the road lined up for emergency flights out of the city. The last 39 hospital patients were flown out Friday night on a Canadian Forces plane, officials said.
Air tankers dropped water and fire retardant to keep the flames from Yellowknife. A 10-kilometer fire line was dug, and firefighters deployed 20 kilometers of hose and a plethora of pumps.Canada has seen a record number of wildfires this year that have caused choking smoke in parts of the US All told, there have been more than 5,700 fires, which have burned more than 137,000 square kilometers from one end of Canada to the other, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.
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