[Newsbot]

Title: Hay River’s mayor says time running out to evacuate as Northwest Territories wildfires block highway
Category: Environmental
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2023-08-16 05:43:51
Canadian

[Strutz]

It's awful in this area. Entire communities are being wiped out.

Enterprise, N.W.T., '90 per cent gone' after wildfire ravages community

Wildfire could reach Yellowknife's outskirts by weekend

[Strutz]

Evacuation of 20,000 residents of Yellowknife has begun.

N.W.T. officials order phased evacuation of Yellowknife as wildfire approaches city

[xerxes]

20,000 people traveling down one highway with few gas stations along the way. Going to be a rough evac. I wish them luck and hope that it’s purely precautionary.

[DrCaleb]

Evac centre in Grand Prairie (5 hours closer to Yellowknife) is full. Evac centre in St. Albert is full. Evac Centre in Leduc is now open.

[DrCaleb]

[Zipperfish]

Wow.

[bootlegga]

xerxes xerxes:

20,000 people traveling down one highway with few gas stations along the way. Going to be a rough evac. I wish them luck and hope that it’s purely precautionary.

Yep, I bet this is even worse than the Fort Mac evac in 2016, which also evacuated tens of thousands of people down a single highway. The problem here of course, is that major cities like Edmonton are 14 hours away, instead of five.

[DrCaleb]

bootlegga bootlegga:

xerxes xerxes:

20,000 people traveling down one highway with few gas stations along the way. Going to be a rough evac. I wish them luck and hope that it’s purely precautionary.

Yep, I bet this is even worse than the Fort Mac evac in 2016, which also evacuated tens of thousands of people down a single highway. The problem here of course, is that major cities like Edmonton are 14 hours away, instead of five.

If I were the owner of a gas station along that highway, I would have called yesterday for a tanker refill. Just like Fort Mac.

[DrCaleb]

Listening to the noon call in show on the radio. It's Alberta wide, and in the NWT today too as all the radio hosts from Yellowknife are in Edmonton.

Lots of people who call in say 'Hi Judy, remember me?' or 'Just called in Peter to let you know we are in Whitecourt..'.

Yellowknife is still a small town, like the one I grew up in.

[Scape]

[DrCaleb]

N.W.T. wildfire evacuees say Facebook's news ban 'dangerous' in emergency situation

[Tricks]

Is the problem that facebook banned news or that they're getting their news from facebook?

[DrCaleb]

Yes. They got their news from Meta properties, and they don't know where else they can get news.

Like . . .here.

[Strutz]

Fire danger 'increasing quite significantly' for N.W.T. communities of Hay River, Fort Smith