And in British Columbia, which has also suffered unusually intense blazes this year, officials warned residents to prepare for extreme fire conditions.
Canadian fire crews are battling to prevent bushfires from reaching the northern city of Yellowknife, where all 20,000 residents are leaving by car and plane after an evacuation order was declared.
“This weather event has the potential to be the most challenging 24 to 48 hours of the summer from a fire perspective,” fire service director Cliff Chapman told reporters. “We are expecting significant growth and we are expecting our resources to be challenged from north to south.” Defence Minister Bill Blair, speaking to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation after the meeting, said the federal government was closely monitoring the evacuations and was prepared to quickly airlift residents if land routes were cut off.This is Canada’s worst-ever wildfire season with more than 1000 active fires burning across the country, including 265 in the Northwest Territories. Experts say climate change has exacerbated the wildfire problem.
Canada’s two largest airlines said they were adding flights from Yellowknife and capping fares following outrage on social media about some soaring prices. So far about 134,000 square km of land in Canada have been scorched, more than six times a 10-year average. Nearly 200,000 people have been forced to evacuate at some point this season.
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