Federal ministers will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. MT/12 p.m. ET to address the N.W.T. wildifre situation and the emergency response.
The city of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, was nearly empty Friday morning as a deadline to evacuate, imposed by provincial officials, neared.
All residents of the capital city were ordered to evacuate Wednesday night as a wildfire crept closer. There are 236 wildfires in the territory as of Friday morning, and the one threatening Yellowknife was last mapped at 166,946 hectares and is 15 kilometres away from the city, according to the N.W.T. government.
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