Northwest territories terms. This place is twice the size of france, its got 16,000 people in it, so vast scales that were talking about. This is essentially three communities to the left of yellowknife. And you can just hear a float plane into the distance, by the way. This is the Mackenzie River behind me. Yellowknife under a full evacuation order, as you probably heard, yesterday. We came out here a day before because, to be frank, the writing has been on the wall for days that that wildfire was going to pose a grave threat. Ok, so theres a huge lake called great slave lake. Yellowknife is on the top of it. Then, at the other side of that lake its a very large lake you have two communities called fort smith and hay river. Together, they have got about 7000 people in them. On saturday and sunday last weekend, they were both told to evacuate. Thousands of people fleeing down the highway to alberta, where they still are. We have no timeline for when people might be able to get back to
Yellowknife is now blanketed in smoke, and fires are burning close to the one major road into and out of the city. Rebecca alty is the mayor of yellowknife. She told us what things were like there. Right now, its residents are evacuating by road. As many people as possible are doing that. Theres also, for folks who dont have vehicles, we are starting the air evacuations, so flights. We still have commercial flights, so some people have booked onto a commercial flight, but we have the Evacuation Flights also starting at 1pm. So getting folks registered for thatjust began an hour ago. So folks have been good, theres long line ups i think there was kilometres worth of a line up, so a bit of a snail s place out of town, itsjust one road in, one road out. That highway is where the fire is, so the highway can close. But right now, it is open. So if the conditions change, if the smoke gets too heavy, if the fire were to approach the highway, the highway would be closed in the evacuation would
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Programme. Just tell us how its going with this effort to the city. So the evacuation actually started probably before the order was issued. So people were starting to leave, there was a bottleneck as people were leaving at the beginning, but we are seeing it more consistent as people go out, so we are not having any, as bad of a bottleneck. If the conditions on the road are good but there is spots where its smoky. The first a0 km we do have a pilot car that is taking people back and forth, or back through that. People back and forth, or back through that. People back and forth, or back throu~h that. ,. ,. ,. , through that. Sorry, go ahead . Iwas auoin to through that. Sorry, go ahead . Iwas going to ask. Through that. Sorry, go ahead . Iwas going to ask, what through that. Sorry, go ahead . Iwas going to ask, what about through that. Sorry, go ahead . Iwas going to ask, what about the fires i going to ask, what about the fires and how they are moving . Could you tell us what the late
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