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0llie, thank you so much forjoining us, especially under these circumstances. Now, i understand youve been able to flee these fires. Just bring us up to date in terms of what took place, what happened and how youre 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 isnt in 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 bef ....
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And pose a real threat. 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 that just 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, its just one road in, one road out. That highway is where the fire is, so the highway can close. But right now, it is open. If the conditions change, if the smoke gets too heavy, if the fire ....
Have been able to flee these fires. Bring us up to date in terms of what took place, what happen and how you are coping. I am now in a small village called fort simpson, 630 kilometres west of yellowknife. It sounds like a huge distance but it really isnt. This place is twice the size of france. This is essentially free communities to the left of yellowknife. You can hear a flight plane into the distance. This is a Mackenzy River behind me. The writing has been under the walford days that fire would pose a great friend. Has been in the writing for days. Covering the Northwest Territories, and we did an interview with a gentleman called john valiant who spent seven years studying wildfires in Fort Mcmurray and he described to me how authorities in 2016 underestimated the strength of the wildfires and he said he saw ....