0llie, thank you so much forjoining us, especially under these circumstances. now, i understand you ve been able to flee these fires. just bring us up to date in terms of what took place, what happened and how you re coping where are you now? yeah, so i am now in a small village called fort simpson, which is about 630 kilometres west of yellowknife. it probably sounds like a huge distance it really isn t in northwest territories terms. this place is twice the size of france, it s got 16,000 people in it, so vast scales that we re 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
from yellowknife who, like thousands of other residents, has fled the city. i m now in a small village called fort simpson, which is about 630 kilometres west of yellowknife. probably sounds like a huge distance. it really isn t. in northwest territories terms, this place is twice the size of france. it s got 16,000 people in it. so vast scales that we re talking about, this is essentially three communities to the left of yellowknife. and you can just hear a float plane in the distance. by the way, this is the mackenzie river behind me, yellowknife, under a full evacuation order, as you ve 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. so there s a huge lake called great slave lake. yellowknife is on the top of it. then at the other side of that lake, it s a very large lake. you have two communities called fort smith and hay river together. they ve got about 700
the size of france. it s got 115,000 people in it. so vast scales that we re talking about. this is essentially three communities to the left of yellowknife. you can just hear a float plane in the distance, by the way. this is the mackenzie river behind me. yellowknife is under a full evacuation order, as you ve 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. there s a huge lake called great slave lake. yellowknife is on the top of it. then, at the other side of that lake, it s a very large lake, you have two communities called fort smith and hay river. together they ve got about 7,000 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 those communities. there hasn t even been any commun
west of yellowknife. probably sounds like a huge distance. it really isn t in northwest territories terms this place is twice the size of france. it s got 16,000 people in it. so vast scales that we re talking about. this is essentially three communities to the left of yellowknife. you can just hear a float plane in the distance, by the way. this is the mackenzie river behind me. yellowknife is under a full evacuation order, as you ve 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. there s a huge lake called great slave lake. yellowknife is on the top of it. then, at the other side of that lake, it s a very large lake, you have two communities called fort smith and hay river. together they ve got about 7,000 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 s