• Yellowknife residents leave by air, road as wildfire evacuations ramp u

    From Lucas McCain@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 18 13:13:05 2023
    XPost: alt.survival, alt.politics.canada

    So much for any survivalist's dream of living off the grid, in the
    wilderness to escape tyrants like Justin Trudeau and maybe survive a
    nuclear or biological war. It's as if these Great Reset / New World
    Order "leaders" want no one to live off the land or disappear into the
    woods where they can't be controlled by Big Tech and the Deep State.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/18/yellowknife-residents-leave-by-air-road-as-fire-evacuation-deadline-looms

    Authorities in Canada’s Northwest Territories are urging residents to
    leave the capital of Yellowknife by air or land, as crews battle a
    massive wildfire that prompted an evacuation order for the city of about
    20,000 people.

    Ten planes left Yellowknife with 1,500 passengers on Thursday, said
    Jennifer Young at the Northwest Territories’ Department of Municipal and Community Affairs, and the agency hoped another 22 flights will leave on
    Friday with 1,800 more passengers.

    Thousands of people also have fled in their vehicles, driving hundreds
    of kilometres to safety, as the worst fire season on record in Canada
    showed no signs of easing.

    Canada’s Minister of National Defence Bill Blair said on Friday
    afternoon that half of the population of the Northwest Territories, a
    sprawling area home to some 45,000 people, had been displaced by the “unprecedented” blazes.

    “We will do whatever it takes to make sure you can return to your
    communities and livelihoods as quickly as possible,” Blair said during a
    news conference, pledging the federal government’s support. “We know
    that conditions remain difficult,” he added.

    Members of the First Canadian Ranger Patrol group based out of
    Yellowknife, debrief at a local school
    Members of the First Canadian Ranger Patrol group based in Yellowknife
    debrief at a local school [Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters]
    The Northwest Territories issued a state of emergency on Tuesday as more
    than 200 wildfires burned across the territory in northern Canada.
    Authorities also ordered all Yellowknife residents to evacuate by noon
    local time (18:00 GMT) on Friday.

    “Nobody envisioned an event of this scale. It’s still really stressful. There are a lot of people still left in Yellowknife that are freaking
    out,” said resident Tebbia Teoncey, who was evacuated to Edmonton, Alberta.

    The massive fire to the northwest of Yellowknife only advanced by around
    one kilometre (0.6 miles) on Thursday, officials said, because it was
    held back by winds.

    It is now about 15km (9 miles) away from the city and authorities expect
    the fires to reach the outskirts of the city by the weekend.

    “We’re heading into a critical couple of days in management of this wildfire,” Mike Westwick, the fire information officer for Yellowknife,
    told reporters on Thursday.

    “Those are winds that will trend both of those fires in directions that
    we don’t want,” he added.

    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged his government’s
    support and members of the Canadian Armed Forces also have been sent to
    the Northwest Territories to help fire crews battle the flames.


    Canada has experienced a record number of wildfires so far this year,
    with more than 5,500 blazes prompting evacuations across the country.

    Over the past months, several areas – including British Columbia and
    Alberta in the west, to Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
    in the east – have battled wildfires, some of which sent massive plumes
    of smoke to parts of the United States and Europe.

    Experts have pointed to climate change as worsening the size and scope
    of wildfires in Canada and around the world, as high temperatures and
    other factors lead to earlier and more destructive fire seasons.

    As of Thursday, more than 1,000 fires were burning across Canada and 671
    of them were considered out of control, a Canadian interagency fire
    tracker reported. In the Northwest Territories alone, 236 fires were active.

    More than 21,000 square kilometres (8,100 square miles) have burned so
    far this year across the territory, according to the government.

    “We’re all tired of the word unprecedented, yet there is no other way to describe this situation in the Northwest Territories,” Caroline
    Cochrane, premier of the Northwest Territories, wrote on social media
    earlier this week.

    People wait in line at the airport as they prepare to leave the
    Northwest Territories
    People wait in line at the airport as they prepare to leave Yellowknife,
    August 17, 2023 [Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters]
    The evacuation of Yellowknife was by far the largest in 2023, said Ken McMullen, president of the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs and fire
    chief in Red Deer, Alberta.

    “It’s one of those events where you need to get people out sooner rather than later” because fire could block the only escape route before ever reaching the community, he said.

    Yellowknife Mayor Rebecca Alty said the fire was not the only concern
    either. “With the heavy smoke that will be approaching we encourage all residents to evacuate as soon as possible,” she said.

    Meanwhile, a state of emergency has been declared in Kelowna, British
    Columbia, a city about 400km (249 miles) northeast of Vancouver that is
    home to about 150,000 residents.

    “Residents under Evacuation Alert are advised to be ready to leave their
    home at a moment’s notice,” the City of Kelowna said in a statement
    early on Friday, adding that people should prepare to be away from their
    home for an extended period of time.

    The evacuation orders were issued after blazes that were discovered on
    Tuesday jumped Lake Okanagan, sparking spot wildfires in Kelowna.


    SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES
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