Nearly all 20,000 residents of Yellowknife, the capital city of the Northwest Territories, have evacuated, while thousands more in neighboring British Columbia have fled, too.
The McDougall Creek wildfire burns in the hills West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, on Thursday as seen from Kelowna.
There are more than 200 fires burning in the Northwest Territories. Nearly 400 are burning in the nearby province of British Columbia. Canada is grappling with its worst wildfire season on record, leaving tens of thousands of people displaced and blanketing parts of that country and the U.S. with thick, choking smoke.
“The last two fires that were kind of big in our region were in ’98 and 2014, but nothing that threatened Yellowknife so much that we even had to consider an evacuation, let alone actually issue an evacuation,” she said. “It’s been a tough, tough couple days and, I’d say, a tough month. That’s when the fire first started.”
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