Temperatures hit 30 C, while smoke from wildfires in the region made Norman Wells, N.W.T., the most polluted municipality in the country, according to IQAir, a Swiss technology company that monitors air quality around the world.
Residents in one small N.W.T. community returned home, while another is still evacuated, and about a dozen new fires sparked up over the last two days.
Intermittent rains in the North Slave region of the Northwest Territories on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning have helped firefighters battling wildfires in the region.
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