FORT NELSON, B.C. — The mayor of the regional municipality that includes Fort Nelson, B.C.
, that was evacuated due to a threatening wildfire says local officials are pushing for a Monday or Tuesday deadline to start allowing about 4,700 residents home after nearly two weeks.
He says in a video posted late Wednesday that some doctors had returned to the community along with grocery staff who were restocking shelves. The mayor of the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality says officials were planning to reach out to the operators of"phase three" businesses this weekend. "If it keeps going the way it's been going, we'll be making a call here on the weekend, I'm pretty sure of that," he said of the decision on when to lift the evacuation order."The wildfire crews continue to work away, any place that it's getting close to the edge, so they can be real comfortable they've got good containment and that it's wet along the edges," he said in Wednesday's video.
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