Here are the latest fire updates for many of the communities in the Northwest Territories.
Fires continue to burn close to communities in the Northwest Territories while evacuations are ongoing.The wildfire threatening the City of Yellowknife is about 15 kilometres northwest of the municipality; weather and firefighting have aided crews to pause the spreadWind is blowing flames south around Hay River closing Highway 5
—the Behchoko and Yellowknife access — with a live travel map showing it"may close with little or no notice."Evacuees from Yellowknife, territorial capital of the Northwest Territories, make their way along highway 3, at the edge of a burned forest, on their way into Ft. Providence, N.W.T., Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. "Firefighters from South Africa were actually departing from Yellowknife. They've been on a long tour here.
"The unified command team there has been putting in some really good work taking advantage of that weather and continuing to build upon a huge network of fuel breaks," he said. "It's a challenging situation down there in Hay River. Those areas are going to see significant drying as well over the next couple of days and a return of potential for southerly winds," Westwick said.The community was one of the first places to be evacuated due to fires in the territory.
"We've got a good handle on that, it hasn't grown in the past few days," Westwick said."We hope to have some good news for folks very soon.""With some cooling temperatures and some good firefighting work, we've been able to eliminate the threat from the community there," Westwick said."They were under an evacuation notice, since been lifted."
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