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Hay River’s mayor says time running out to ev

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Hay River’s mayor says time running out to evacuate as Northwest Territories wildfires block highway


Environmental | 1049 hits | Aug 16 5:43 am | Posted by: DrCaleb
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Officials in the community work to get word out as about 500 people in the town have yet to evacuate with fires burning 15 km from the town

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  1. by avatar Strutz
    Wed Aug 16, 2023 10:36 pm
    It's awful in this area. Entire communities are being wiped out.

    Enterprise, N.W.T., '90 per cent gone' after wildfire ravages community

    Wildfire could reach Yellowknife's outskirts by weekend

  2. by avatar Strutz
    Thu Aug 17, 2023 5:40 am
    Evacuation of 20,000 residents of Yellowknife has begun.

    N.W.T. officials order phased evacuation of Yellowknife as wildfire approaches city

  3. by avatar xerxes
    Thu Aug 17, 2023 11:29 am
    20,000 people traveling down one highway with few gas stations along the way. Going to be a rough evac. I wish them luck and hope that it�s purely precautionary.

  4. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:27 pm
    Evac centre in Grand Prairie (5 hours closer to Yellowknife) is full. Evac centre in St. Albert is full. Evac Centre in Leduc is now open.

  5. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:28 pm



  6. by avatar Zipperfish  Gold Member
    Thu Aug 17, 2023 3:57 pm
    Wow.

  7. by avatar bootlegga
    Thu Aug 17, 2023 5:55 pm
    "xerxes" said
    20,000 people traveling down one highway with few gas stations along the way. Going to be a rough evac. I wish them luck and hope that it�s purely precautionary.


    Yep, I bet this is even worse than the Fort Mac evac in 2016, which also evacuated tens of thousands of people down a single highway. The problem here of course, is that major cities like Edmonton are 14 hours away, instead of five.

  8. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Aug 17, 2023 6:11 pm
    "bootlegga" said
    20,000 people traveling down one highway with few gas stations along the way. Going to be a rough evac. I wish them luck and hope that it�s purely precautionary.


    Yep, I bet this is even worse than the Fort Mac evac in 2016, which also evacuated tens of thousands of people down a single highway. The problem here of course, is that major cities like Edmonton are 14 hours away, instead of five.

    If I were the owner of a gas station along that highway, I would have called yesterday for a tanker refill. Just like Fort Mac. 8O

  9. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:13 pm
    Listening to the noon call in show on the radio. It's Alberta wide, and in the NWT today too as all the radio hosts from Yellowknife are in Edmonton.

    Lots of people who call in say 'Hi Judy, remember me?' or 'Just called in Peter to let you know we are in Whitecourt..'.

    Yellowknife is still a small town, like the one I grew up in. :(

  10. by avatar Scape
    Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:32 pm

  11. by avatar DrCaleb
    Fri Aug 18, 2023 1:18 pm
    N.W.T. wildfire evacuees say Facebook's news ban 'dangerous' in emergency situation

  12. by avatar Tricks
    Fri Aug 18, 2023 3:50 pm
    Is the problem that facebook banned news or that they're getting their news from facebook?

  13. by avatar DrCaleb
    Fri Aug 18, 2023 4:51 pm
    Yes. They got their news from Meta properties, and they don't know where else they can get news.

    Like . . .here.

  14. by avatar Strutz
    Sat Aug 26, 2023 3:25 am
    Fire danger 'increasing quite significantly' for N.W.T. communities of Hay River, Fort Smith



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