A wildfire burning west of Fort Liard, N.W.T., jumped the Liard River on Friday evening, posing a greater threat to the community that's under an evacuation notice.
A wildfire burning west of Fort Liard, N.W.T., jumped the Liard River on Friday evening, posing a greater threat to the community that's under an evacuation notice.A photo of the Fort Liard sign. The highway south of the community in northern B.C. has been reduced to single lane traffic due to poor visibility from smoke.
As of Friday evening, firefighters were unable to directly attack the fire because of unsafe conditions. Westwick said high winds and poor visibility meant that firefighting aircraft couldn't be used."There's no road access, we can't fly. So we don't have an exact location," he said. McKee said in the case of an evacuation order, the destination for residents would be determined by highway conditions. He said as of Friday, it wouldn't be in B.C. because of the closure or Highway 7.Sean Whelly, mayor of Fort Simpson, told CBC News theAn evacuation notice is the first of three levels of emergency. The second would be an evacuation alert and the final is an evacuation order.
The Town of Hay River posted on Facebook that it was implementing a full-fire ban until after the wind event on Saturday. The town also said that the fire department is responding to an underground fire on Patterson Road, but that it is contained to an area that's been previously burned.New fire detected east of Sambaa K'e
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