Yellowknife, NWT, Canada (pop. 20,000) evacuating due to wildfires

[airportwoman]

The Canadian military, among other things, is planning airlifts. Google Maps and Images showed that a huge percentage of this town on the tundra live in tightly packed mobile-home communities, which has me thinking that much of the population is seasonal, or itinerant (contract workers on nearby mines, that kind of thing).

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-wildfires-yellowknife-nwt-1.6939126

The town of Enterprise, which is a couple hundred miles southwest of Yellowknife, was largely destroyed by a wildfire in that region.

Here's a link to other stories; I accessed it last night because I was curious about how they were going to handle hospital patients. In short, they're dealing with things as conditions change.

Newsroom | Health and Social Services Authority

www.nthssa.ca

 

[airportwoman]

One week later: I'm not seeing much information about Yellowknife, which has me thinking the people in that area are largely out of danger, at least for now, but Hay River, on the opposite side of the Great Slave Lake, is not.

'Preparing for the worst, hoping for the best': Evacuation order issued in Hay River, N.W.T.

The Northwest Territories government turned its attention to the community of Hay River on Friday as a raging wildfire led to extreme fire behaviour in the region and forced the evacuation of all remaining people, except for firefighters, in the town.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

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N.W.T. wildfire evacuees say Facebook's news ban 'dangerous' in emergency situation​

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...Bill C-18, which recently became law, forces large social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and others to negotiate compensation for Canadian news publishers when their content is shared. Meta has pushed back against the law and made good on its threat to instead block news from being shared on its platforms in Canada.