As a deadline to evacuate Yellowknife arrives, those displaced by wildfires continue to pour into Calgary.
Some were in wheelchairs, others with dogs.At Calgary’s airport, volunteers provided fruit and bottled water for weary displacees like Geraldine Atigitkyoak who shepherded her four children in search of a hotel room.
But she said her children viewed the evacuation as an adventure, though one whose duration is uncertain.A reception centre has been set up at the Calgary International Airport for evacuees who’ve flown in while another one has been established at the nearby Westin Calgary Airport hotel to process people travelling south by vehicle.Article contentSome have connected with friends and relatives in the city while others went on to other cities.
Jasmine Bonnetrough, 11, waits with her family and other Northwest Territory evacuees as they arrive at the Calgary Airport evacuation reception Friday, Aug. 18.She and others arrived in a Calgary heavily shrouded in smoke from B.C. forest blazes, an indication of the sweeping scope of the wildfire crisis in Western Canada.
Abigail Dulay, who moved from Calgary to Yellowknife last year, now forced by wildfires to return, said the experience has had her thinking about climate change.
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