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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Newsday 20240704

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. there s also, for folks who don t 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, there s long line ups i think there was kilometres worth of a line up, so a bit of a snail s place out of town, it s 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 were to approach the highway, the highway

Transcripts For BBCNEWS Newsday 20240704

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. there s also, for folks who don t 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 thatjust began an hour ago. so folks have been good, there s long line ups i think there was kilometres worth of a line up, so a bit of a snail s place out of town, it sjust one road in, one road out. that highway is where the fire is, so the highway can close. but right now, it is open. so if the conditions change, if the smoke gets too heavy, if the fire were to approach the highway, the highway would be closed in the

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