which may take months or years. back to you. vedika sud, thank you. residents in a large canadian city are under evacuation orders after wildfires. 20,000 people in yellow knife have been told to get out by noon friday. more than 200 fires are burning across their northwest territories. this surreal image is from ft. mcmurray ravaged by another wildfire in 2016. the flames this week turned the sky red. officials say they are trying to deploy more resources to the region and canadian prime minister justin trudeau says canada s military has been called in to help. and wildfires are also raging on a spanish fire spreading to 1800 hectares in 24 hours. and because of steep ravines, it
you can t see anything. she tells cnn is smoke and flames made it hard for her clearly not only to drive, but also made it hard for her to even breathe. the situation on the ground literally has also turned the skies red over ft. mcmurray. look at that image. it s so eerie. some residents had to be airlifted from remote villages as flames got dangerously close. cnn cnn is tracking all of this. the impact from canada s fires, we know previously they ve impacted the united states. what are you expecting to see here? reporter: well, with this level of smoke billowing up from these hundreds of wildfires you talked about in the northwest territory, we will likely feel the impacts in the form of poor air quality across parts of the u.s. i ll explain exactly where. we re already picking up satellite signatures of the smoke with the wildfires that are threatening the town of
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