People in Yellowknife on Wednesday were busy preparing for a possible evacuation as a major wildfire pushes closer to the city's outskirts.
Posted: Aug 16, 2023 7:30 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
"If the town is burning, the air quality would be very bad. I'm still debating whether I'm gonna be here. There might be situations where people are needed to do rescues, or helping out." She said the city would work with the territorial and federal governments in the case of a larger evacuation."It would be kind of nice to have access to the whole plan, to sort of know, you know, what are the different stages of possibilities, and how they're planning on evacuating a city when there's no road access — you know, is there gonna be boats, is there gonna be planes," he said.
"I'm like, you know what? I'm just gonna pack up and and leave in the morning when there's daylight hours and hope the road is open, and before the winds pick up and stuff — because I just don't know what's coming, you know?" Hancock said, from Fort Providence, N.W.T."The plan was to drive right back up after the race, but I think I'm just going to stay down there and then just kind of wait it out and see what's going on," he said.
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