Evacuees in Calgary are spread out over nearly 40 hotels that have offered up space for those fleeing the wildfires in the Northwest Territories.
However, financial support won’t be offered to evacuees who found accommodations on their own, nor will it reimburse those who used their own vehicles to evacuate.
“Asking that number of residents to depart the territory en masse and figuring out how to support them fairly is a challenge,” she told reporters on Tuesday. “We want to be mindful that our evacuation costs would ideally fit within the federal disaster financial assistance and recovery support,” she said.
“My auntie, she went to Edmonton. I came to Calgary. My uncle went to Manitoba, and my cousins ended up in Vancouver,” Yellowknife evacuee Dennis Chicot said. “We’re all over Canada now, Yellowknife is everywhere.”
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