Officials in Canada urged some 20,000 residents to evacuate Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories as a wildfire poses “a real threat to the city.”
Authorities in Canada are racing to evacuate nearly 20,000 residents from the territorial capital, Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories by Friday as a raging wildfire nears the city.
“I want to be clear that the city is not in immediate danger, and there’s a safe window for residents to leave the city by road and by air,” he
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