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 before because, to be frank, the writing has been on the wall for days that that wildfire was going to pose a grave threat. What were you seeing that led you to think, hey, i better
This pilot, hovering above a swimming pool, now being used to douse the flames further down the hill. These homes, some distance from the destroyed coastal town of lahaina, are in the centre of the island where, last week, just before the fires, the cameras at this Bird Sanctuary captured a bright flash. Staff believe it is a tree falling on a powerline. Shortly afterwards, flames can be seen in the forest. Ross hart saw something similar before his home burned down. We could hear some trees falling here and there in the distance. One big one fell here on the bridge and it knocked over the powerlines. And then you saw the house. You could see it burn . I saw it begin to burn and they wouldnt let me stay to watch it. They were dragging me out because the embers were starting to come over my truck and stuff. Questions are now being asked about whether lives might have been saved. Should mauis power grid have been turned off . Could more have been done to Sound The Alarm . For many of tho
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Important for the government to understand, for the nigeriens to see that we are going to make sure that our mission has the right kinds of people in it. if they are going to have a discussion and then you need somebody with experience to help be that conduit. one of the first things they do is present their credentials to the president, the president in this case is obviously under house arrest and the most recent us delegation there was denied access to him, what is the sort ofjob that lies ahead, what does that look like for kathleen fitzgibbon? i think the first thing ambassador fitzgibbon will have to do is really meet with our embassy. we have americans that are in niger, we have our own local staff. and i think the first thing is the people that are directly working for you. she will have to make sure that our staff understands what the us government position is, what she s going to doing there as a leader, and how much we know that this situation is very straining on all of the
Worked over decades. i think that is her number one. the second will be to make sure american citizens in the country also know the embassy has an ambassador there. i think those kind of symbols in that order are important. as far as the communication with the people who have seized power and her communication with the people who have seized power, i imagine she will continue to be the state department s conduit. she will be able to speak with president bazoum, hopefully, and if the government that has imposed itself wants to deal seriously with united states government, kathleen is going to be the person they really reach out to.