Alberta has been the fortress for evacuees fleeing wildfires in the Northwest Territories, encroaching on the capital of Yellowknife.
Karen Wilford and her husband Peter fled from Yellowknife Thursday morning and arrived in Calgary on Friday night.“Everyone in Alberta, in fact has been very welcoming and supportive and offering of thoughts and prayers and positivity,” said Wilford.
Karen Wilford and her husband Peter fled from Yellowknife Thursday morning and arrived in Calgary on Friday night.“Enterprise is a community that was razed by fire last Sunday and starting about 40 kilometers outside of that city limit is just an absolute apocalyptic landscape of ash on the ground and power lines downed and tree stumps that are blackened and still smoking,” said Wilford.
The church’s executive director Anne Yates-Laberge says the church has started an initiative to help evacuees that need extra support.
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