OTTAWA, Canada - Residents of one of the largest cities in Canada's far north were ordered Wednesday to flee amid warnings that raging wildfires could reach it by the weekend.
TOPSHOT - This handout photo shows the town of Fort Smith, Canada during the wildfires, on August 13, 2023. Hundreds of people started to be airlifted to safety from remote villages threatened by wildfires in Canada's far north overnight Monday to Tuesday after Yellowknife, the largest city in the region, declared an emergency.
"Unfortunately, our wildfire situation has taken another turn for the worse with a fire burning west of Yellowknife now representing a real threat to the city," Shane Thompson, the Northwest Territories' environment minister, told a news conference. The wildfire as of late Wednesday was within 17 kilometers of Yellowknife, which is the regional capital.But he added:"Without rain, it is possible will reach the city outskirts by the weekend."Yellowknife declared an emergency earlier this week, which was soon expanded across the huge northern territory as firefighters were forced to pull back in some areas.
Separated by several hundreds of kilometers, most of the villages in the region are difficult to evacuate by land, officials said. "Flames were jumping over my truck" and the 28-year-old said he worried its tires would melt in the heat."The asphalt was on fire."
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