Tag: Yellowknife
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I evacuated from Yellowknife this summer. Coming home was the hardest part.
[ad_1] (Photograph by Hannah Eden) I was eating a hot dog when I decided it was time to evacuate Yellowknife. I’d been mostly awake for 72 hours, and boiled hot dogs with cheap yellow mustard seemed like as good a method of self-care as anything else. This was my fourth year working as an information…
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N.W.T. fires: Essential workers head back early to Yellowknife
[ad_1] Officials in Yellowknife, as well as staff with the Northwest Territories, are getting ready for the start of a mass migration home of wildfire evacuees that’s still on track for Wednesday. Yellowknife city manager Sheila Bassi-Kellett said workers in grocery stores, pharmacies, home-heating providers, and even some taxi drivers and daycare providers…
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N.W.T. officials say start planning now for lifting of Yellowknife evacuation order
[ad_1] By Staff The Canadian Press Posted September 2, 2023 8:41 pm Updated September 2, 2023 8:49 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Residents of Yellowknife and a nearby First Nation who have been evacuated for weeks due to wildfires are being told to start planning now for their return home, beginning…
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N.W.T. fires: Fire close to Yellowknife of concern
[ad_1] The next two days will be critical in the fight against a wildfire on the outskirts of Yellowknife, officials shared in an update Thursday. The fire burning just outside of the capital city was still 15 kilometres away from the municipality as of Thursday morning, but officials said conditions in the area were quickly…
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“It’s like going off to war”: This man is helping evacuate fire-plagued Yellowknife
[ad_1] Heavy smoke from nearby wildfires fills the sky in Yellowknife on Tuesday, August 15, 2023. (Photograph by Angela Gzowski/The Canadian Press.) The north is burning. Since early spring, forest fires have raged across the Northwest Territories. But in the last week, the flames reached the territory’s biggest population centres. On Wednesday, Yellowknife residents were…
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Wildfires force 20,000 residents to evacuate from Yellowknife, Canada : NPR
[ad_1] Residents flee Yellowknife, Canada, on Highway 3 after being ordered to evacuate on Wednesday due to a wildfire heading closer to the city. Pat Kane/Reuters hide caption toggle caption Pat Kane/Reuters Residents flee Yellowknife, Canada, on Highway 3 after being ordered to evacuate on Wednesday due to a wildfire heading closer to the city.…
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N.W.T. wildfires: Yellowknife ordered to evacuate
[ad_1] Officials in the Northwest Territories have ordered residents of Yellowknife to evacuate as wildfires burn just outside the city’s borders. “The fire continues to advance and now burns approximately 17 kilometres outside the city,” Northwest Territories Minister of Environment and Climate Change Shane Thompson told reporters at a news conference Wednesday night.…