Yellowknife faded into a ghost town in the face of looming wildfires Friday as the mayor of the territorial capital urged residents to leave and not fear looting. “Grocery stores aren’t open. There’s no services here in town.
Yellowknife faded into a ghost town in the face of looming wildfires Friday as the mayor of the territorial capital urged residents to leave and not fear looting.
Inside Yellowknife and surrounding communities, once-busy streets were emptied, with stores and businesses closed. In Yellowknife, gas stations — if they had fuel — were still operating as of Friday morning. One grocery store and a pharmacy remained open — as did a bar, where exhausted workers were gathering at the end of long shifts.
"Our members know the land better than anyone else," Testart said."We're confident they'll be safe out there.""Busy skies today," said Westwick. The main highway out has been reported as having steady, orderly convoys of vehicles headed for evacuation centres in various parts of Alberta.
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