Wildfire warning issued for Hootalinqua area in Yukon
Yukon emergency officials have issued a wildfire warning for the Hootalinqua area, where the Teslin and Yukon Rivers meet northeast of Lake Laberge.
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Posted: Jul 08, 2021 6:59 PM CT | Last Updated: July 9
A view of the Lake Laberge wildfire on Tuesday, burning near the confluence of the Yukon and Teslin Rivers. (Yukon Protective Services) comments
Yukon emergency officials have issued a wildfire warning for the Hootalinqua area, where the Teslin and Yukon Rivers meet northeast of Lake Laberge.
A notice on Thursday afternoon said the Lake Laberge wildfire had grown to 2,300 hectares and was active along both the Teslin River and the Thirty Mile portion of the Yukon River.
Whitehorse woman dead after vehicle rollover near Watson Lake
In a news release on Wednesday, Yukon s chief coroner said Lori Schroeder, 54, of Whitehorse was killed in the single-vehicle incident on Monday near Watson Lake, Yukon.
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The rollover incident happened on the Robert Campbell Highway on Monday afternoon. Lori Schroeder, 54, had been travelling back to Watson Lake from a work site.(Paul Tukker/CBC)
A Whitehorse woman is dead after her vehicle rolled over on the Robert Campbell Highway near Watson Lake, Yukon, on Monday, the coroner says.
In a news release on Wednesday, Yukon s chief coroner said Lori Schroeder, 54, was killed in the single-vehicle incident and a passenger in her vehicle was injured.
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All fire use has been suspended in the Watson Lake Fire Management District as the region breaks heat records.
Cooking and warming fires are only allowed in the provided fire pits and stoves at road-accessible territorial and commercial campgrounds, Yukon Wildland Fire Management said.
There is an extreme fire danger due to hot and dry weather and a lack of rainfall.
The Watson Lake Fire Management District includes:
• the Town of Watson Lake, Upper Liard and Rancheria;
• the Alaska Highway from the B.C. border to 23 kilometres west of Rancheria;
• the Robert Campbell Highway from Watson Lake to 20 kilometres east of Finlayson Lake; and