Residents of the town of Hay River are to be allowed to return to the Northwest Territories community Thursday, even as a wildfire continues to burn on the nearby K'atl'odeeche First Nation reserve.
A post on the town's Facebook page Wednesday said the evacuation order would be reduced to an evacuation alert, meaning residents are allowed to return but should be prepared to leave again if conditions worsen.
Germaine Michel said she's looking forward to returning home. She has been staying in Manning, Alta., about 500 kilometres to the south, with friends after leaving Hay River in her camper in the middle of the night. "Hearing the evacuation alarm going off this year caused even more stress than I was imagining it might, and panic," she said.
"We know that everyone wants to come home. We know that this has been extremely stressful on so many levels and we are doing everything we can to get you back home as soon as it is safe," Mayor Kandis Jameson said. "We had a safe evacuation and we are not going to risk bringing people back too soon."
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