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NWT Fire said the 163,000 hectare (402,781 acres) wildfire is currently 17 km from Yellowknife and would likely reach Highway 3, the only highway connecting the city to the rest of Canada, on ...
The fire prompted evacuation orders and even airlift plans for thousands of people. Officials issued evacuation orders for Yellowknife and the nearby First Nations communities of Ndilo and Dettah.
(Reuters) -Canadian fire crews on Thursday battled to prevent wildfires from reaching the northern city of Yellowknife, where all 20,000 residents are leaving by car and plane after an evacuation ...
The Yellowknife Fire Department handles the city's fire, ambulance, rescue, and hazardous materials responses. [81] A point of debate in recent years has been the implementation of 911 services in Yellowknife (currently one may now dial 911) [ 82 ] through a partnership with five other Northwest Territories communities; the cost of installation ...
The fire burned around 23,015 hectares (56,871 acres) and between 30 and 40 structures were destroyed. [88] [89] The response to the fire included widespread evacuation orders of the surrounding area, displacing around 5000 people. [90] This wildfire was the largest recorded in the history of Nova Scotia. [84] [91]
The 2014 forest fire season in the Northwest Territories of Canada is reputed to be the second worst for at least three decades, only surpassed by the 2023 forest fire season. [1] As of 3 July, there had been 123 fires reported in the territory, of which at least 92 were still active and 13 were thought to be human-caused.
The Yellowstone fires of 1988 collectively formed the largest wildfire in the recorded history of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Starting as many smaller individual fires, the flames quickly spread out of control due to drought conditions and increasing winds, combining into several large conflagrations which burned for several months.
Wildfire forced the evacuation of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories, last year. About 19,000 people had to flee the city , which is in an area with discontinuous ...