The City of Yellowknife said it intends to develop a long-term plan for the multi-million dollar firebreaks that were hastily built this summer but those discussions are still in the early stages now.
A massive effort to protect Yellowknife, involving city and territorial workers, the military, and an army of local contractors, could be put to the test in the coming days as wildfire threatens to reach city limits.
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An evacuation order along Highway 3 in the N.W.T. has been extended to Yellowknife's municipal boundary, as a wildfire is burning about 17 kilometres to the west of the city.