Canadian fire crews battled early on Thursday to prevent wildfires from reaching the northern city of Yellowknife, where 20,000 residents are leaving after an evacuation order was declared.
Aug 17 - Canadian fire crews battled early on Thursday to prevent wildfires from reaching the northern city of Yellowknife, where 20,000 residents areWater bombers flew low over Yellowknife as thick smoke blanketed the capital of the vast and sparsely populated Northwest Territories.
"This fire is approximately 16 km to the northwest of Yellowknife and in the absence of rain, there is a chance it does reach the outskirts ... by the weekend," Mike Westwick, the territories' fire information officer, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation early on Thursday. He described Wednesday's evacuation order as very difficult.
"We're doing absolutely everything we can first and foremost to slow the growth and prevent that fire from making it to Yellowknife," he added, saying the focus would be on air bombers and getting crews close to the blaze. In a social media post, the Territories fire service said a fire that had been threatening Hay River, a community of some 3,000 further south on Great Slave Lake, had stalled overnight.
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