The first round of Yellowknife, NWT residents fleeing wildfires landed in Winnipeg early Saturday. The city and province say they will be providing evacuees with food and shelter.
Flights carrying evacuees escaping wildfires from Northwest Territories began to arrive in Winnipeg on Saturday.
An evacuation order to the capital city of NWT mandated residents be gone from their homes by noon as wildfires inch closer to Yellowknife. “The devastation in NWT is terrifying, but Canadian cities always have each others’ backs,” he wrote.
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