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Morning Update: Yellowknife residents share chaotic evacuation stories as thousands flee wildfires
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Yellowknife mayor vows all residents will get out after orders to evacuate city
People without vehicles lineup to register for a flight to Calgary in Yellowknife on Thursday, August 17, 2023. Communities receiving evacuees from the Northwest Territories fleeing wildfires have sprung into action to lend a helping hand. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Bill Braden
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With wildfire smoke filling Yellowknife’s sky, some didn’t wait for an evacuation order
Beatrice Bernhardt, Yellowknife resident since 2013, poses in front of the makeshift evacuee service centre set up for wildfire evacuees from Yellowknife and the Northwest Territories in Calgary on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Only a small handful of people have made their way to the evacuation centre, with most travellers either getting picked up straight from the airport or continuing to connecting flights. (Photo by Jude Brocke/The Globe and Mail)
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Evening Update: Yellowknife residents evacuate as wildfire heads toward city
Yellowknife residents leave the city on Highway 3, the only highway in or out of the community, after an evacuation order was given due to the proximity of a wildfire in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Aug. 16, 2023. REUTERS/Pat Kane
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Video from Yellowknife evacuees shows heavy smoke over highway
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Trudeau to convene urgent ministers’ meeting as wildfire forces Yellowknife evacuation
Heavy smoke from nearby wildfires fills the sky in Yellowknife on Tuesday, August 15, 2023. Residents of the capital of the Northwest Territories and two neighbouring First Nation communities have been ordered to evacuate by Friday because of an encroaching wildfire. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Angela Gzowski
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Evacuation flights land and more scheduled for Friday
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In photos: Entire city of Yellowknife ordered to leave as wildfire burns nearby
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Lifelong Yellowknife resident Chad Hinchey was on the road by 3 p.m. Wednesday, a couple of hours before residents were ordered to leave, and drove almost nine hours to High River in Northern Alberta.
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Morning Update: Yellowknife evacuating as wildfire threatens NWT capital
Yellowknife residents leave the city on Highway 3, the only highway in or out of the community, after an evacuation order was given due to the proximity of a wildfire in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada August 16, 2023. REUTERS/Pat Kane TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Yellowknife, other Northwest Territories towns ordered to evacuate due to wildfire threat
Yellowknife residents leave the city on Highway 3, the only highway in or out of the community, after an evacuation order was given due to the proximity of a wildfire in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada August 16, 2023. REUTERS/Pat Kane
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Yellowknife on alert with fire nearing city’s edge, B.C. could see blazes grow in coming days
Heavy smoke from nearby wildfires fills the sky in Yellowknife on Tuesday, August 15, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Angela Gzowski
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Evening Update: Wildfires continue to menace large areas of NWT, moving close to Yellowknife
Vehicles leave Yellowknife on the only highway in or out of the city after a state of emergency was declared due to the proximity of a wildfire, in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada August 16, 2023. REUTERS/Pat Kane
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Northwest Territories issues new evacuation warnings after unprecedented wildfires
The hamlet of Enterprise, Northwest Territories, is pictured early Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. Photo courtesy of A. G. Carroll
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Four homes in Northwest Territories lost in wildfire, road closed
The Northwest Territories provincial flag flies on a flag pole in Ottawa on June 30, 2020. Five homes have been lost to a wildfire in a community in the Northwest Territories in the last two days, as the fire remains out of control about 100 kilometres northwest of Yellowknife. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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More than half of N.W.T. wildfires so far this season caused by humans: officials
Firefighters pose on one of the bulldozer control lines fighting a wildfire in the Northwest Territories in a recent handout photo. Officials in the Northwest Territories say more than half of the wildfires in the territory this year were started by people. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Government of Northwest Territories **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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K’atl’oodeeche First Nation, Hay River, NWT, order evacuations as wildfire spreads
A view of a wildfire over Hay River, Northwest Territories from an air tanker is shown in a May 14, 2023 handout photo. A First Nation reserve and nearby town in the southern Northwest Territories have been evacuated as a wildfire spreads in the area. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Northwest Territories Environment and Natural Resources**MANDATORY CREDIT**
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The homemade dishes that make us think of our mothers
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Leaders express disappointment with changes to Canadian North airline
A First Air plane is shown on the runway before takeoff Wednesday June 26, 2019, in Ottawa. The Canadian government announced late last month it had approved new terms and conditions for Canadian North's merger with First Air. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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My Airtag tracked my luggage having more adventures on its way home than I did
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