MAYO, YUKON — Residents of the Village of Mayo are under an evacuation order and others in central Yukon are under an alert as a wildfire inches closer to the…
The Yukon Emergency Measures Organization says it issued the evacuation order for Mayo, located just over 400 kilometres north of Whitehorse, at 1 p.m. Sunday due to hazards to life posed by the Talbot Creek wildfire burning about seven kilometres south of the village.
“Evacuating a community of any size is never easy,” said fire information officer Mike Fancie with the Government of Yukon. “Everybody in Mayo is doing the best they can under the circumstances.”Article content “We’ve had a lot of new ignitions that in many cases we’ve been successful at targeting from an initial attack,” he said. “But, in some cases, we haven’t been able to either due to a shortage of resources, or due to the fact that it just wasn’t feasible for us to attack those fires once they were reported. They were either too big or too remote.”
The village’s website says the community averages around 450 residents. A post from Yukon Protective Services on Saturday says the territory has been experiencing widespread smoky conditions due to wildfire activity.
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